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Paper: Comparisons of Six English Translations of Lucretius De Rerum Natura

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    • May 17, 2023 at 8:54 AM
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    I just found this very detailed paper:

    Comparison of Six English translations of Lucretius “De rerum natura” – Digital Humanities Project Course

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    I split off my comments (which were predominantly about the technology used for the comparison, and placed it HERE, along with the recent Linux discussion:

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    Jupyter Notebook (Used in Lucretius Comparison_

    It looks like the full PDF of the paper is here:

    https://github.com/haraldsDev/luc…-Comparison.pdf

    Boy this guy is good -- writing it and uploading it to github for revisions. This is a great way to take advantage of technology to do things! @TauPhi and @Cleveland Okie It looks like he isn't really taking advantage of github for revisions, but this is the start of the way to publish a paper and then work on it collaboratively with extremely fine grained control over what revisions…
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    This seemed to shed some light on the subjectivity of translation, as it show some sections of word for word comparisons.

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    3.1.3. Verbs and nouns – treated differently

    01_latin_order 02_latin_tokens 03_eng_direct_tokens 1656_en 1743_en 1872_en 1886_en 1916_en 1936_en
    81 ferae a wild beast, wild animal savage savage untamed wild wild wild
    82 pecudes cattle bruits beasts herds herds herds beasts
    83 persultant to leap about, range through jump frisk bound bound leap bound
    84 pabula fodder, pasturage, grass meads fields pastures pastures fields pastures
    85 laeta joyful, cheerful, glad, flowry cheerful glad glad happy fat
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    That's the line I quoted on the most recent podcast episode, vis-à-vis living things drawn toward pleasure as toward their natural nutriment.

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