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  1. Παιδεύομαι γλῶτταν ἑλληνίκην νῦν, καί βούλομαι λέγειν σύν τοῖς ἄλλοις ἀνθρώποις. Ἐγώ καί πολύ καλῶς νομίζω αὔτον γράφειν 0 Α.Δ. ἐν γλώτταις ἑλληνίκῃ τε καί ῥομαίᾳ.

    I am currently learning Ancient Greek, and I wanted to see if anyone would like to practice it. I find writing and translating English->Greek to be the best way to keep it up. Also, it might be cool if someone translated 0 A.D. into Ancient Greek and Latin at some point!

    He that's not too bad, a few things: Its more idiomatic to use a neuter plural for languages just as in modern Greek, so Hellanika rather than he hellenike he glotta, you don't need nun since you're using a present tense with an iterative sense and actually a verb from the root math- would be more usual. For "in Greek" we have two different idioms you can use a verb + inf (ethelo + Hellenzein) or the more correct verb of speaking + Hellenesi. The first /o/ in Roman is long too.

    Overall not bad, you should check out some of the free textbooks on composition if you have time. I also agree, Greek and Latin ports would be awesome.

  2. I hope I'm not reviving a dead thread...it seems little older than a week or so.

    Anyway, I'm a Classical Philologist/Ancient Historian (whichever handle you prefer) and though a specialist in archaic Greece obviously Sanskrit is one of the languages I know. I'm really, really, impressed by this project, I've no modding skills but I'll try to help in other ways.

    Now for cavalry, I guess you can have Laghu Asvanika for light/swift horse but there are some other close matches, if you want variety. The skill of horsemanship was largely called aśvavidyā, cavalry as a collective was called aśvārohagaṇaḥ (as in a singular word, "cavalry) amongst other things, aśvārohagaṇaḥ (as a singular, last vowel is long for plural) is the most stand out name for "horseman" in general.

    So , obviously not a big deal, and I've no idea if these Classical Sanskrit words were used in Mauryan times (nor indeed do I know much about them!) but just to give you some variety.

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