Please Help a Desperate Uni Student!

Hey all.

My first post. Wasn't sure where to put this so if it's in the wrong place please move it.

First can I just say that EB is absolutely awesome. The level of detail is excellent and the research is second to none. Which brings me to the point of my post.

I'm currently trying to do a short paper for uni on the origins and evolution of gladiatorial combat. I have managed to find, in Latin, a copy of Valerius Maximus' work "Nine Books of Memorable Deeds and Sayings" which supposedly has the story about Junius Brutus' funeral games in the Forum. The problem is I can't read Latin. I was wondering if, in their many readings, any of the EB team had found a copy of Valerius, online, in English. Failing that does anyone know of a downloadable tool that translates Latin into English.

Thanks in advance

Maybe try the Perseus Digital Library.

Tried Perseus. Was the first place I looked. I've also tried Fordham university, Lacus Curtius and Forumromanum. Thanks for the suggestion though.

There is a wonderful new translation. Superb. It's the closest book to my monitor right now actually, so I can just tilt my head and type the full info on the spine :grin: - it's a 2004 translation by Henry John Walker, by Hackett Publishing Company Inc. Indianapolis/Cambridge. Good footnotes too. Additionally, the Loeb Library translation is only a couple of years old too. So two really good new options if you can get your library to Interlibrary Loan them.

Sorry, no clue about these things. Is the Junius Brutus you're talking about Lucius Junius Brutus, who threw out Tarquinius Superbus?

Any kind of latin translation, if done by a computer, would give you a headache. The word order is random, you can put the words in whatever order you want. The cases would confuse you, and it might translate a name as a word. It'd be simpler to not try that, or try to find a real, live, Latin-English translator.

Thanks so much Teleklos. Now I just have to find a copy.

@ Tiberius: No it isn't the same Junius Brutus who got rid of Tarquinius, its his descendent