My Ancient Greek is practically nonexistent. I can tell what the letters are, and I got θεὰ, but not why much more than that. Thanks for the translation.
What is it doing in the report? -Aris On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 9:40 PM Corona <liliumalbum.ag...@gmail.com> wrote: > For anyone interested: the > translation is "Anger be now your > [Achilles'] > song". > More literally, "Rage—Goddess, sing the rage of [Achilles]" > > μῆνιν = acc. sg, of rage/wrath (of the gods) > ἄειδε = imperative active singular 2nd person of sing/chant > θεὰ = goddess, I think it's singular vocative > > ~Corona > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 2:51 AM, ATMunn <iamingodsa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Ah, ok. > > > > > > On 6/12/2018 7:46 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: > > > >> Ancient Greek, not modern Greek. It's from the start of the Iliad. [1] > In > >> fact, it's the first words, or incipit, of the text. > >> > >> [1] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:19 > >> 99.01.0133 > >> > >> -Aris > >> > >> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 4:41 PM ATMunn <iamingodsa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> I tried translating the text at the top of this report. Turns out, > >>> unless google translate is broken, it wasn't meant to be translated, > >>> it's gibberish. (unless the language isn't supposed to be Greek?) > >>> > >>> On 6/12/2018 5:40 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------ > >>> ---------------- > >>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Registrar's Weekly Report > >>> > >>>> > >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------ > >>> ---------------- > >>> > >>>> > >>>> Date of last report: 03 Jun 2018 Date of this report: 12 Jun 2018 > >>>> (all times UTC) > >>>> > >>>> (μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ) > >>>> > >>>> Recent Events (recent events section not ratifying) > >>>> > >>>> 08-May-18 12:50:50 Registrar initiates zombie auction for Telnaior, > >>>> 天火狐 20-May-18 19:49:44 G. flips Telnaior's master switch to G. > >>>> (auction). 21-May-18 05:37:32 Corona flips 天火狐's master switch to > >>>> Corona (auction). 24-May-18 21:46:42 twg registers. 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