Translation Advice

Here is some advice about translating from Carmen Online Latin.

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I realise that everyone has slightly different methods, but I hope that for some of you at least, this will help! 

Translator: Words By William Whitaker

Words by William Whitaker is one of the best online translators around. It does English-Latin and Latin-English using a very basic interface. 

Words By William Whitaker

There’s also a downloadable program which is available from here.

Some More Translation Practice...

To get better at translating or to start studying a text try the first few paragraphs of Horace the Satires (Book 1) below:

gressum magna me accepit Aricia Roma
hospition modico: rhetor comes Heliodorus,
Graecorum longe doctissimus; inde Forum Appi,
differtum nautis, cauponibus atque malignis.

hoc iter ignavi divisimus, altius ac nos (5)
praecinctis unum: minus est gravis Appia tardis.
Hic ego propter aquam, quod erat deterrima, ventri
indico bellum, cenantis haud animo aequo
exspectans comites. iam nox inducere terris

umbras et caelo diffundere signa parabat. (10)
tum pueri nautis, pueris convicia nautae
ingerere. “huc apelle!” “trecentos inseris: ohe
iam satis est!” dum aes exigitur, dum mula ligatur,
tota abit hora. mali culices ranaeque palustres

Translation Practice

As you have probably heard time and time again, practice will make you prefect. So today I have provided you with a website which generates a random Latin sentence and provides a translation so you can check your one.
So check out SCRIBAX for some more practice

If you need any help in for vocabulary, this is an online dictionary.

Online Dictionary