03-08-2021, 09:49 PM
John (? ?) wrote:
It was whilst I was revisiting some of the posts that are here and an explanation of John .....'s (... surname redacted 'cos I don't want any more hate mail from Atherstone) regarding the difficulty of understanding the translation of “faucibus” as in plurals and explanation of defile/s and gullet that I ran the Latin through a computerised translator and instead of a defile the translation mentions a narrow isthmus as an access to the site as opposed to the standard translation of a defile" – Deryk
I may have been wrong on this John but it was associated with an article from the Atherstone Society (Margaret Hughes perhaps) – so my apologies if I have blackened your name here inadvertently.
Either way it gave me a new impetus to look at it and to think about the wording.
John wrote
I struggle with a valley and a half at Church Stowe but generally accept the possibility of being more than one for the narrative, but my interpretation of the primary valley at CS remains unchanged for the purpose of this pursuit.
I love the use of the word “pursuit” which seems very apt.
The site I have chosen (Pitstone Hill) is the only one that makes sense to me but having said that it would seem not to have things that I would have hoped to see and certainly not the fortifications as at Church Stowe, the slope of the land is the opposite as we would expect for the choice of the Roman line but the topography works especially when you try to run the battle through.
It was whilst I was revisiting some of the posts that are here and an explanation of John .....'s (... surname redacted 'cos I don't want any more hate mail from Atherstone) regarding the difficulty of understanding the translation of “faucibus” as in plurals and explanation of defile/s and gullet that I ran the Latin through a computerised translator and instead of a defile the translation mentions a narrow isthmus as an access to the site as opposed to the standard translation of a defile" – Deryk
I may have been wrong on this John but it was associated with an article from the Atherstone Society (Margaret Hughes perhaps) – so my apologies if I have blackened your name here inadvertently.
Either way it gave me a new impetus to look at it and to think about the wording.
John wrote
I struggle with a valley and a half at Church Stowe but generally accept the possibility of being more than one for the narrative, but my interpretation of the primary valley at CS remains unchanged for the purpose of this pursuit.
I love the use of the word “pursuit” which seems very apt.
The site I have chosen (Pitstone Hill) is the only one that makes sense to me but having said that it would seem not to have things that I would have hoped to see and certainly not the fortifications as at Church Stowe, the slope of the land is the opposite as we would expect for the choice of the Roman line but the topography works especially when you try to run the battle through.
Deryk