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johnnyFive  ·  1859 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 20, 2019

    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  ·  1859 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I gain a lot from meditating on the semantics.

johnnyFive  ·  1859 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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

darlinareyousleepy  ·  1858 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  ·  1858 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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