Horace Is The Greatest--Game Over
Horace is the greatest lyric poet of all time, and anyone who disagrees with me is a. . .a, well, a flibbertigibbet!
I mean, ausa et iacentem visere regiam vultu sereno, fortis et asperas tractare serpentes, ut atrum corpore combiberet venenum Come on! Cleopatra is "brave enough even to handle wild asps so that she might drink the black venom into her body"! Come on! |
OK, I give. But should that be venenum?
Cheers, John |
Venenum indeed, atrum venenum a serpentibus!
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Eheu!
Cheers, John |
Hmn, this thread has not been nearly as incendiary as I had hoped.
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Perhaps that should be modified, Aaron, with "as far as we can tell". We only have fragments of Sappho's lyrical poetry, and perhaps there are others whose work we've never seen.
Duncan |
Now we're getting somewhere! I will fetch my popcorn.
John |
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I've been reading Horace's Odes, in the Shepherd and Michie translations side by side.
Shepherd is vastly better, in most cases. |
I have the McClatchy Horace, which I enjoyed.
Cheers, John Also: A Greek-English lexicon wrote Liddell and Scott. Some parts were clever, and some parts were not. There's more, but I'll stop there. |
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