Tattoos and Ancient Greek

[billberg23]

"There is nothing impossible to him who will try"

The actual quotation is here, Chris:  http://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?topic=20746.0.

Why spend money on a book (though they are available:  check Amazon, etc.)?  A quick Google search yields many downloadable translations of Arrian and Plutarch’s Life .  For example, see
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_plutarch_alexander.htm (Plutarch), or
http://websfor.org/alexander/arrian/intro.asp (Arrian).

[snapperhead]

Snapperhead, welcome to Translatum!

I'm moving your question to the correct forum (http://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?topic=309.0).

Thank you very much

[snapperhead]

Thanks for that Billberg

[snapperhead]

Do you have any suggestions as to what other quotes from Alexander I could use?
Do you know where I could get a copy of his oath in Ancient Greek?

thanks for your help.

[billberg23]

Do you have any suggestions as to what other quotes from Alexander I could use?
Do you know where I could get a copy of his oath in Ancient Greek?

See http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great for a wealth of quotations.  It is there suggested that the "oath" is a concoction of modern writers.

[nataliaotto]

hi, i'd like to tattoo the words MYTH and REASON. can anyone help me to translate it to ancient and new greek? thanks!

[nataliaotto]

i'd like to know how to write KNOWLEDGE in greek too.
thanks again

[billberg23]

MYTH and REASON.  i'd like to know how to write KNOWLEDGE in greek too.

It's always a good idea to read "The Rules" (click at top of page) before posting, as advised:  one word/phrase per post, please.  Just this once, we'll treat your requests as a single sentence:
μῦθος                λόγος               γνῶσις
(assuming that by "reason" you mean the thinking process, not the cause).

[wowzer5000]

The great boxer Muhammad Ali once quoted... "We have one life, it soon will be past, what we do for god is all that will last."  I was wondering how accurately that could be translated.  If it would be possible to translate that quote to Ancient Greek I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks :)

[billberg23]

The great boxer Muhammad Ali once quoted... "We have one life, it soon will be past, what we do for god is all that will last."

You might want to repost, wowzer, after reading The Rules (click at top of page), esp. Rule 1.5.

[Neuromancer]

Hello,

if possible, can someone advise what the ancient greek translation of 'being is' is? According to Wikipedia it's "eon emmenai' though I have no idea which letters to use for this.

Alternatively, "existence exists" would be wonderful to have translated.

Thanks!!

N

[billberg23]

can someone advise what the ancient greek translation of 'being is' is? According to Wikipedia it's "eon emmenai'

"Wikipedia" is probably quoting from Parmenides, fr. B 6.1 D-K,

χρὴ τὸ λέγειν τε νοεῖν τ'ἐον ἔμμεναι· ἔστι γὰρ εἶναι

— "it is necessary to say and to know being to be;  for to be is"
The last three words in Greek (ἔστι γὰρ εἶναι) are your best shot at "being is."

[Neuromancer]

Wonderful. Thank you so very much!

[tomrpreston]

Hi.

I am a new user looking for guidance/translation on the denifinition of a greek tattoo (shown in image).



It would be much appreciated if someone could help me by writing out the sentence in Greek on computer, so that I could then copy it.

Any help would be gratly appreciated,

many thanks,
Tom

[billberg23]

It seems to say, "Sotiri, my father and friend, rest in peace."
(Σωτήρη, πατέρα και φίλε μου, αναπαύσου εν ειρήνη)