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  2. Aquila of Sinope - Wikipedia

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    Only fragments of this translation have survived in what remains of fragmentary documents taken from the Books of Kings and the Psalms found in the old Cairo Geniza in Fustat, Egypt, while excerpts taken from the Hexapla written in the glosses of certain manuscripts of the Septuagint were collected earlier and published by Frederick Field in his influential work, Origenis Hexaplorum quæ ...

  3. List of ancient Roman speeches - Wikipedia

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    Cicero denounces Catiline, who attempted a failed coup against the Roman Republic. [a] Cicero: 63 BCE [4] [5] Cato the Elder's speech directed towards the Seleucid king: Cato addresses the Seleucid King in Athens. Cato the Elder: Uncertain date [6] [7] [8] Cato the Younger's speech during the Catiline conspiracy

  4. Languages of the Roman Empire - Wikipedia

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    Latin was the official language of the Roman army until the mid-6th century, and remained the most common language for military use even in the Eastern empire until the 630s. [38] By contrast, only two bishops are known to have spoken Latin at the ecumenical councils held during the reign of Theodosius II (d. 450 AD).

  5. eSpeak - Wikipedia

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    There are many languages (notably English) which do not have straightforward one-to-one rules between writing and pronunciation; therefore, the first step in text-to-speech generation has to be text-to-phoneme translation. input text is translated into pronunciation phonemes (e.g. input text xerox is translated into zi@r0ks for pronunciation).

  6. Old Latin - Wikipedia

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    The concept of Old Latin (Prisca Latinitas) is as old as the concept of Classical Latin – both labels date to at least as early as the late Roman Republic.In that period Cicero, along with others, noted that the language he used every day, presumably upper-class city Latin, included lexical items and phrases that were heirlooms from a previous time, which he called verborum vetustas prisca ...

  7. Old English - Wikipedia

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    Here is a natural enough Modern English translation, although the phrasing of the Old English passage has often been stylistically preserved, even though it is not usual in Modern English: What! We Spear-Danes in ancient days inquired about the glory of the kings of the nation, how the princes performed bravery.

  8. Ancient text corpora - Wikipedia

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    Ancient text corpora are the entire collection of texts from the period of ancient history, defined in this article as the period from the beginning of writing up to 300 AD. These corpora are important for the study of literature , history , linguistics , and other fields, and are a fundamental component of the world's cultural heritage .

  9. Lists of English translations from medieval sources - Wikipedia

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    The sources used to identify relevant translations include the following. Journals. American journal of Semitic languages and literatures. [1] [2] [3] An academic journal covering research on the ancient and medieval civilizations of the Near East, including archaeology, art, history, literature, linguistics, religion, law, and science.