Plato the Sophist in Gothic

[Dicentis a roellingua@gmail.com [gothic-l]]

No, it's Dutch. My first name is Roel and I use the word 'lingua' here for
the rest of my name, which is Latin for language.


2014-07-13 5:20 GMT+02:00 OSCAR HERRE duke.co at sbcglobal.net [gothic-l] <
gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>:

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> just curious about your name...is it French...
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>   On Saturday, July 12, 2014 4:04 PM, "roellingua at gmail.com [gothic-l]" <
> gothic-l at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>  Hello there, I have improved my Gothic a lot since some of my posts and
> I 'm currently trying, with what we know of native Gothic syntax and with
> the word order of modern German (as that was one word order which could be
> used in old Gothic) to translate this book in Gothic. The best aspect of it
> is because it was written in a time before the Goths and not in modern
> times, you can find most words in dictionary. This is what I got until now,
> it is reconstructed Gothic, if you see any mistakes, please tell me:
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> Sijum hēr, Sokrates, swē þast fairnái daga, jah attiuham gasts fram Eleái
> hidre, saei siponeis Parmenidis jah Zenau ist, jah þagkja pistkeins.
> Sokrates: Nist guþ mais þau manna, Teodorus? Saei qimiþ du unsis huljans
> swē gasts? Untē Homer qiþiþ ei guþa allái jah þis-hun guþ gaste sind
> ga-sinþas manne hnaiwe jah manne goþe, jah qimiþ at mannáim guþáim jah
> mannáim ubilaim. Jah ni sijai ga-sinþa þeins sums mahtē hauhē, guþ, saei
> qimands du bigitan un-mahts in in-sahtái, jah du us-sukjan unsis?
> Theod: Ni, Sokrates, manna soks nist - ist ufar goþs fáur þamma. Jah, jah
> muna, ni allis ist guþ, ak gudisk ist, untē ita ist ufar-meli saei giba du
> alláim þáim sind þagkjas.
> Soc: Goþs abraba, frijonds meins! Jah wiljau ana-áukan ni halis sind swē
> guþa. Untē þagkjas pistkeinái, at-augjand sik in laudis missa-leikái ni
> ga-kunnands þáirh manna,
> jah "thliuhand ufar baurgim" swaswē Homerus ga-kanneiþ, saiƕans fram
> himina ana libainai mann; jah sum þagkjand ni waiht....
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