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**Sidenote Edit: Microsoft's AI, Copilot, told me it couldn't translate (Greek) txt. I presume that will change. I'm not sure if Claude 3 panders to my ego. I believe it is reading me and drawing conclusions about my direction or intent. I understand that your goal in having me translate the origina...

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https://claude.ai/ Reply to #1, CLAUDE 3 OPUS Here is my translation of that passage from Philo's De Posteritate Caini §155: "But the manner in which he changed, we shall indicate: 'When he led us out from Egypt, from the bodily passions.'" This is referring to God leading the Israelites o...

https://gemini.google.com/app On my first try of this major tool, I gave GEMINI ( Bard ) several ancient Greek lines from Philo Judaeus, On the Posterity of Cain and His Exile , §155 Me: "what is the translation of this Philonic passage? De Posteritate Caini, §155: ὃν δὲ τρόπον μετέβαλε, σημανο...

**Mods, this can be moved wherever.** I cannot speak for anyone else, but I've long been dissatisfied with the freebie online translators of recent years: DeepL and GoogleTranslate. Although I noted some improvement around 2021, the overall output for ancient Greek passages was (and surprisingly REM...

It really speaks to modern man's need to control that the past is not allowed to pass away peacefully and with dignity. ... Is it a moral question to allow historical monuments, artifacts, etc from antiquity to fall and become as the sand of time? Ozymandias (BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY) I met a travel...

Not surprising, but perhaps problematic for the field. https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/25/uk/microplastics-archeological-remains-study-scli-intl-scn-gbr/index.html (If this reads 'Off-Topic' here, please feel free to move wherever. I think archaeological matters are related, but obviously 'non-textual' ...

What you need to convict someone is (1) evidence of a crime, (2) an "enraged" jury and then (3) demonstrations of the "bad character" of the accused. You don't know what you're talking about, again. I sat on a murder trial as a juror; I took an active role in the discussions of ...

Here's a "Story Conference Transcript" supposedly dated to 1978 : Philip Kaufman — "... kind of a Middle Eastern adventure based around a similar idea to something like that book "The Spear of Destiny" where the Nazis were into mystical cults and so forth, and they were loo...