Languages of letters
Most letters in EE are in English or French, but we are constantly adding increasing numbers of letters in an increasing number of languages:
- Dutch
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Latin
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish
- Swedish
...even a young man's Rabelaisian Greek
...even a young man's Rabelaisian Greek
...Ἡ βαρβάρη σου ἐπιοτολὴ (Ὠ σε χειρουργότατον ϕημὶ ἄν ἢ μᾶλλον πανουργότατον) τὰ τῆς μητρυίας πήματα καὶ τὴν ἀπάτην τὴν σὴν ἧκέ μοι ϕέρουσα, εἰπέν δε ἁπεπανούργηκας, καὶ ὅντινα τρόπον τὴν πενθερὰν τὴν ὀινοβαρῆ καὶ παμμέγιστον γραὺν ἔλαθες θὀιμάτιον ἀποσυλήσας, ὥστε μὴ ἐν τῷ χειμῶνι τριβώνιον....(John Locke — aged 20 — to Louis Thiery, 1653)
Your barbarous letter ('O you master-craftsman' I would say, or rather 'O you consummate rascal') arrived bringing me the woes of the step-mother and your deceitful behaviour; it told me of all your knavery and how you managed undetected to rob the mother-in-law, that bibulous and enormous old woman, of her cloak, so that you would not have to shiver in the winter (or storm?) in your threadbare garment.
Searching by languages
It is now possible to search all letters by language.
Translations
English translations are given for documents in Latin and Greek, and there are increasing numbers of translations from and to other languages as well; for example, we already have translations into French of some letters by Americans in France.
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