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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7907262, member: 19463"]To Augustus, I would suspect the 'old kings' would be the Seleucids and other Hellenistic rules that he, and Rome, had replaced as the prime world power. There is no such thing as 'translation'. There is no 'right' or 'direct' word for word translation even if our dictionaries give one. What we have are 'versions' written in a different language with different degrees of attention paid to matching idioms or concepts. Even within one language, English being a prime example, we can need extensive footnotes to insure we are receiving the ideas as intended by the author when they come from different areas or have learned the 'second' language differently. I was taught that one can not be considered 'fluent' in a language while they are still thinking in a different language and translating. We have machine translations with huge vocabularies but most people who know the language make fun of the output. It is hard to discuss the subject without using terms some might find offensive. It is not limited to versions from any particular place or region. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engrish" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engrish" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engrish</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>In this case I doubt <b>PEREGRINOS </b>meant anything more than 'foreign' but it could have meant foreign lands not governed by an 'old king' (or issuing coins with types not showing a king). My old dictionary takes up three column inches to define and give examples of the uses of peregrinus ranging from foreign and non-Roman to strange and outlandish. </p><p><br /></p><p>Did Augustus speak 'good' Latin? Those around him would not say otherwise.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7907262, member: 19463"]To Augustus, I would suspect the 'old kings' would be the Seleucids and other Hellenistic rules that he, and Rome, had replaced as the prime world power. There is no such thing as 'translation'. There is no 'right' or 'direct' word for word translation even if our dictionaries give one. What we have are 'versions' written in a different language with different degrees of attention paid to matching idioms or concepts. Even within one language, English being a prime example, we can need extensive footnotes to insure we are receiving the ideas as intended by the author when they come from different areas or have learned the 'second' language differently. I was taught that one can not be considered 'fluent' in a language while they are still thinking in a different language and translating. We have machine translations with huge vocabularies but most people who know the language make fun of the output. It is hard to discuss the subject without using terms some might find offensive. It is not limited to versions from any particular place or region. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engrish[/URL] In this case I doubt [B]PEREGRINOS [/B]meant anything more than 'foreign' but it could have meant foreign lands not governed by an 'old king' (or issuing coins with types not showing a king). My old dictionary takes up three column inches to define and give examples of the uses of peregrinus ranging from foreign and non-Roman to strange and outlandish. Did Augustus speak 'good' Latin? Those around him would not say otherwise.[/QUOTE]
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