Translation - Latin-English - Mercator quidam fuit Syracusis senex. Ei sunt...

Thanks for the changes!

"ut quidem ille dixit mihi qui pueros viderat"
as said to me the one who saw the children

Hi all

This looks like homework to me!

I'm not sure that the translation demand should have been accepted.

Seeing the age of the submitter (15 years old) and the fact that it is the only request submtted by her, I think it would be a good idea to get this checked out by an admin.

I've cc'd Francky about it.

If it's not homework and evulitsa's work is to be evaluated, I have one or two comments about the translation as the English is faltering and not easily understandable (at least not by a native British English speaker/expert).

Bises
Tantine

Francky - Homework or not homework? That is the question!!

CC: charisgre dramati Francky5591

Hey! I didn't reject this translation (I just did a few edits -"recongise>>recognize"-twice in the text- I'm going to see wether I can go backwards (what the hell...?)

OK, now that I could only accept it (and not just submit it again to evaluation) one's got to tell wwhat would be the best possible translation.
Tantine?

Welcme back Tantine!

About "homework" I usually reject the translation for translations of names and single words, but about homework, especially when the text isn't particularly easy and requires some work from the translator, I don't use to reject that easily once it is translated, I just try to find submitted homework BEFORE it is translated(this is why I was surprized a few posts above...)

Ok Francky, no problem

Et merci jp, je suis contente d'être de retour parmi vous

For the suggestions for the English version:

There was an old seller of Syracusa.
To him there were born two male twins,
so much alike physically, that their own mother
couldn't recognize to whom was giving her breast

I think this first part should read:

"There was an old merchant of Syracusa to whom were born two male twins, so much alike physically, that their own mother could notrecognise to whom she was giving her breast"

The second part of the translation is not clear at all, even as a "meaning only" transation. I don't understand the last part at all.

Bises
Tantine



CC: Francky5591

"neque adeo mater ipsa quae illos pepererat,
ut quidem ille dixit mihi qui pueros viderat";
is an explanation of the previous sentence

"the mother (herself) who gave birth to them,as the one who saw the children told me".

"ut mater sua
non internosse posset quae mammam dabat
neque adeo mater ipsa quae illos pepererat,"
"So that the mother couldn't recognize to whom she gave her breast, neither than the mother herself ("she" would be fine) could know who was fed"
Sorry for the English, some English native speaker will edit the translation with the right sentence...(Tantine?)
Thank you charisgre!

I agree with the changes. I also didn't notice that this might be some homework... I will try to be more careful next time!