Untranslated latin texts

[NicolePitthan]

Just out of curiosity, are there any latin texts that haven't been translated yet?

 

[Terry S.]

The vast majority of mediaeval and neo-Latin texts are untranslated into English, or any other language.

 

[Terry S.]

This link is for Irish neo-Latin. Less than a dozen texts have been translated.

https://www.ucc.ie/en/cnls/resources/findinglist/

 

[rothbard]

Most of the writings of Symmachus don't seem to have been translated into English.

 

[Serenus]

Indeed. They were entirely translated in the 1970s into French by Jean-Pierre Callu though.

 

[rothbard]

Indeed. They were entirely translated in the 1970s into French by Jean-Pierre Callu though.

There is also an Italian translation from 1724, although the few bits I read have left me with the impression that it isn't terribly accurate.

 

[AoM]

Just realized: has no one published a complete translation of Servius's commentary on the Aeneid? Now that would be an undertaking.

The only thing even close (not really) is a translation of his commentary on book 4.

 

[rothbard]

A translation of Book 7 seems to exist as well. By the way, the original Latin text seems relatively simple. This might be an interesting project, if someone has time and patience to do it.

 

[Dantius]

Servius Grammaticus on Vergil's Aeneid, Book VII: A Translation with Commentary


Does that mean commentary on Servius's commentary?

 

[rothbard]

Sounds like it. Maybe in a thousand years someone will write a commentary on that too.

 

[metrodorus]

Just out of curiosity, are there any latin texts that haven't been translated yet?

Most of the Latin texts ever written have never been translated, and, unless machine learning dramatically improves, are unlikely to be translated for the forseeable future. Indeed, this is the strongest argument there is for learning Latin to a high degree of reading fluency. There are currently over 59,000 texts in the Neo-Latin bibliography, and as more texts are discovered, this number increases (yes, we don't even know how many texts there are; many have not been read by anyone for hundreds of years - let alone translated! There are a few Neo-Latin projects in various countries currently building bibliographies - and this bibliography does not even take into account the huge volume of Latin material that remains in manuscript.) http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/bibliography/index.htm