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Sorry to bother everyone with this, but my last Latin lesson was in 1980. Can someone please translate this?
Quote:"Nam pectora ferro terribilesque innexa iubas ruit agmine nigro latratuque agmine cohors"
Thanks for reading.
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I am checking....some of the words don't seem to be Latin.... :?
it is certain....... iron terrible or frightening......black.......cohort...is all I can understand at a guess..?
from Valerii Flacci.....Argonautica Book VI....I have discovered....
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The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon
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I had discovered that too. If I remember, I'll check at the library today.
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hmmmm.....I'm not expert, but could this have been referring to King Juba of numidia? Just asking because I see "iubas" and "nigro" on the same phrase...I can recognize "agmen" as an army on the march...and "latratu*s*que as barking(and order) at?....but it's all I can barely recognize. I'm just going by intuition.
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Several translations have already been proposed in the Classis-soldier thread.
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ooops MEA CVLPA Jasper....I just saw that...sorry...this always happens when one is trying to pay attention to 3 things at once! :oops:
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My fault. I was just ober-eager to get a translation of the latin posted :?
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