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darlinareyousleepy  ·  1832 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 20, 2019

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Study Guide - Parallel Texts in Greek and English https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EZ843B0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_DexLCbFXNH0CR

Here is original greek. I'm sure there is also latin.

I say latin because it is a lot easier to meditate on for me.

I hope you are well and wish you the best!





johnnyFive  ·  1832 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Here is original greek. I'm sure there is also latin.

If there is, that would be a translation too, so I'm not sure what you'd gain versus reading it in English.

darlinareyousleepy  ·  1832 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I gain a lot from meditating on the semantics.

johnnyFive  ·  1832 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sure, but what I'm wondering why Latin is somehow better in this regard than English?

darlinareyousleepy  ·  1831 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Latin is a simple, but complex language.

I grew up learning ancient latin, so it helps with using those pretty 5 digit words that people who understand other languages tend to listen to. Plus, cyrillic is similar to both ancient latin and ancient greek. Basically, if I want something simple that won't take too much time and still be enriching, I would go to ancient latin over ancient greek.

johnnyFive  ·  1830 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ok, but that doesn't answer why reading Meditations translated into Latin is better than reading it translated into English.