"Quisque est barbarus alio"

**Obelics** · 12-17-2008, 14:50

Originally Posted by Urg

I don't think its a mistake.

My latin dictionary says "alio" is an adverb (not a declension of alius, which is an adjective) which means "to someone/someplace else". I think it was a relatively common latin word.

According to my old dictionary, the adverb "Alio" exist, but the main meaning is "elsewhere"
Now, always according to it, this adverb has an "extended" II(second) meaning of "elsewhere"="to a different people", but just as a traslated/extended meaning.
So if the english sentence sound good as "Everyone is barbarous elsewhere" than is ok, but i dont think so.
To better undertand if i say to a man: "ehi! I dont want to read your curriculum"
then the guy could answer "then i will send it elsewhere" in the same meaning of "I will send it to some other guy" in this case i could use Alio as an adverb
But i think "Everyone is barbarous elsewhere" or “Everyone is a barbarian to other places” in the sense of "other people" sounds strange to me.
Also even if we want to accept it as a poetical licence, than it's a bit strange (for me) to see an adverb at the end of the sentence.

Here's a quote from Livio:
quo alio nisi ad nos socios

means: to whom if not to us allies? litterally==> to what "other where" if not to us allies?
http://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Ab_Urb...ta/liber_XXXIX

that is what i got from my old lyceum vocabulary, and according to my knowledge that i repeat is very limited (highschool), so as usually dont take it sure.

**Novellus** · 12-20-2008, 00:16

That's a pretty huge discovery, finding a possible error in the translation. I can see it now:

EB 1.3 Released

Changed "Quisque est barbarus alio" to "alii"

(It's really that important!)

P.S. I'm not at all belittling the significance of the EB team or the Latin language.

**Philippus Flavius Homovallumus** · 12-20-2008, 01:17

This is still being reviewed.

We do take it seriously but the most effort is going into EBII, and we do have jobs/degree/papers to mark etc.

**Novellus** · 12-20-2008, 01:58

I apologize. I can see that my tone implied belittlement of the conversation. It just seemed unusual that the translation hadn't been discussed earlier like this.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 12-20-2008, 02:24

Yeah, for instance I STILL have to finish some other to-Ancient-Greek translations, and I'm sure they will require extensive error-checking by my colleagues... and those have been on the shelf for ~2 releases or so?