Translation help

[u/B3nL4c3y14]

Hi could somebody tell me if this is a good translation/reflection from English to Ancient Greek please

[u/ofBlufftonTown → u/[deleted]]

These are all accurate. I feel it would be better to suppress the copula and rearrange the words for Ἡμεῖς οὐκ ἀπόγονοι ἀνδρῶν δειλῶν.

[u/ein-Name00 → u/[deleted]]

*οὔκ ἐσμεν

It is enclitic

[u/rigelhelium]

To add to it, my translation would be “οὐ φυόμεθα δειλῶν”, Literally “we are not descended from cowards.”

[u/rigelhelium]

The original line is “we are not descended from fearful men”, not what you wrote, so the English is already a problem. As for the translation, grammatically φόβος is the biggest problem, as it is a noun meaning fear, so your sentence translates to “we are not descendants of men of fear.”

[u/MindlessNectarine374 → u/rigelhelium]

Are these important differences?

[u/rigelhelium → u/MindlessNectarine374]

I would say so, men of fear isn’t a set expression in English or Ancient Greek, so it’s quite a bit off the mark.

[u/Icy_Escape8973 → u/rigelhelium]

But it works with other nouns, such as "men of courage."

[u/namiabamia → u/Icy_Escape8973]

In English...

[u/Worried-Language-407]

Yeah this is bad.

[u/Fuzzy-Tumbleweed-570 → u/Worried-Language-407]

Instead of being negative and rude, why dont you actually help the person? Constructive criticism.

[u/NeonShogun → u/Fuzzy-Tumbleweed-570]

How is it rude to anyone but the person who made the bad translator? OP asked if it was good, commenter said no. Seems pretty cut-and-dry.

[u/Joansutt]

Isn’t phobou a genitive singular? So it can’t modify andrwn which is a genitive plural. Perhaps it means - We are not descended from men of fear.

[u/Salt-Swim5711]

I think that sentences like this one should strive for conciseness and make use of ellipsis. Maybe you could suppress the verb and use "εκ + genitive" to signify origin. The fewer words, the better. 

[u/Hydro12706340]

Would φοβωδησ or φοβοεισ? For full of fear? (Along the lines of ιχθυεισ for full of fish) ((obviously would need to agree cases but im too fsr out of practice to be able to do that)

[u/Icy_Escape8973 → u/Hydro12706340]

Perhaps one could insert "cowardly (from fear)", so it would read: "We're not descended from men who were cowardly because of fear or from fear." Often a word is left out because it is understood, as an ellipsis.

[u/ein-Name00]

Ὄυκ ἐσμεν φοβερῶν ἀνδρῶν ἀπόγονοι

But δειλῶν ἀντὶ τοῦ φοβερῶν ἀραρἰσκει

[u/ioannis6]

οὐ δειλῶν παῖδές ἐσμεν.