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Translations

My translations of Greek and Latin texts, presented alongside the original.

I translate as closely as possible to the syntax and sense of the original while allowing the English to read naturally. Where a literal rendering would obscure the original construction, I favour sense over word order.

7 complete, 3 in progress, across 4 authors and 2 languages: the six Catullus poems and Plato’s Ion are done, and Thucydides, the opening of Aeneid II and the start of Catullus’ Attis are still in progress. Each one has the original alongside it.

Greek

Plato

The dialogue on whether the rhapsode’s skill is knowledge or divine possession.

Ion
Complete, 530a–542b Greek, English and both, Prose dialogue

Thucydides

The plague at Athens, from the second book of the History of the Peloponnesian War.

The Peloponnesian War, Book II
In progress, 2.50–51 Greek, English and both, Prose

Latin

Catullus

Six of the shorter poems, from the dedication of the collection to its most obscene piece, plus the opening of Attis, his long galliambic poem on Cybele’s followers.

Carmen 1
ad Cornelium
Complete, Lines 1–10 Latin, English and both, Hendecasyllables
Carmen 4
de phaselo
Complete, Lines 1–27 Latin, English and both, Iambic trimeter
Carmen 7
ad Lesbiam
Complete, Lines 1–12 Latin, English and both, Hendecasyllables
Carmen 11
ad Furium et Aurelium
Complete, Lines 1–24 Latin, English and both, Sapphic stanzas
Carmen 16
ad Aurelium et Furium
Complete, Lines 1–14 Latin, English and both, Hendecasyllables
Carmen 76
ad deos
Complete, Lines 1–26 Latin, English and both, Elegiac couplets
Carmen 63
Attis
In progress, Lines 1–34 Latin, English and both, Galliambic

Virgil

The opening of the second book, where Aeneas begins the account of Troy’s last night.

Aeneid II
In progress, Lines 40–66 Latin, English and both, Dactylic hexameter

Source texts are drawn from the Perseus Digital Library, with editions credited on each page. English translations are entirely my own. I also build software for analysing these languages: see Enoda on the Projects page.