"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:06:58 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:


Xenophon may be useful too, but he's so boring it's hard to get
through.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1170

It might have been easier had the translator spoken English, oui?
sigh In the first paragraph, this sentence decided me against it.

"The elder, as it chanced, was already there, but Cyrus he must
needs
send for from the province over which he had made him satrap, having
appointed him general moreover of all the forces that muster in the
plain of the Castolus."


My sister said the original Greek was just as bad. Students read it
because the vocabulary and grammar are simple. Caesar is the same in
Latin; much easier for beginners than more literate authors like
Virgil, whom you decipher more than read.

Word-for-word translations of modern German are hardly less stilted
and confusing.
jsw