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thwave
·9 maanden geleden·discuss
they could have seen tusks themselves, and relied on verbal descriptions for the rest of the animal.
thwave
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
> Proclus (ca. 335 BC)

Proclus, whose quote opens the section on Euclid, lived more than 700 years after this date, well into the 5th century AD. Euclid himself wasn't born till about decade after, in 325 BC.
thwave
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
There's always inference.
thwave
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Unless gratefulness is actually binary (x is grateful for y), and directing this gratefulness towards someone is completely optional. (One might argue that the object of gratefulness is optional as well, and you can be grateful simpliciter, in an unqualified way. But to them I'd say there's an implied, general, object: the world, life, existence, or something like this.)
thwave
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
There are still some scholarly work written in Latin. For example see Terence O. Tunberg's book from 2013[0].

I highly recommend this[1] blog post about contemporary Latin knowledge.

[0]https://www.amazon.com/rationibus-colloquendi-Supplementa-Hu... [1] http://blogicarian.blogspot.com/2019/03/argumentum-ad-ignora...
thwave
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Correct. The translated sentence ("my son was a gude and honourable mon, but Sparta has mony a mon better than him.") does ends with two distinctly Doric words: τήνω (there, i.e. in Sparta) κάρρονας (stronger/better), instead of the Attic ἐκεῖ κρείττονας.
thwave
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
This footnote refers to Sayings of Kings and Commanders[0], another text of Plutarch, but is not related to the translation.

[0] https://www.loebclassics.com/view/plutarch-moralia_sayings_k...
thwave
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Perseus Digital Library has a quite a few, in Greek as well. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Pe... https://scaife.perseus.org/library/
thwave
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
My piano teacher used to say "It's not a video-game, you don't go back to the beginning of the level every time you lose."
thwave
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
There's a very interesting comparison to be made between Wittgenstein and Spinoza, but saying something like "basically just a rehash" completely missed the point. Saying that Spinoza is "just a rehash" of Stoic ideas is a bit more correct, and still not very interesting outside of a very specified discussion.

The title "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" was not Wittgenstein's idea, but Moore's.
thwave
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
> not brew, that one is also spyware

how is brew spyware?