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bug#7418: 24.0.50; Ancient Greek and Latin missing in etc/HELLO
From: |
Ulrich Mueller |
Subject: |
bug#7418: 24.0.50; Ancient Greek and Latin missing in etc/HELLO |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:43:46 +0100 |
>> ,----
>> | Greek, ancient (ἑλληνική) Οὖλέ τε καὶ μέγα χαῖρε
>> | Latin (latina) Salve
>> `----
> Latin is not very useful,
So are English, Italian, Dutch/Nederlands and Norwegian. But I agree,
I had added Latin just for completeness.
> but adding ancient Greek is a good idea.
> Where did you get the text from?
It's as classic as Greek can get. :-) For example, the greeting
appears in Homer's Odyssey (book 24, line 403):
<http://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%9F%CE%B4%CF%8D%CF%83%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1/%CF%89#340?match=en>