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Aaron Poochigian 12-26-2017 02:27 PM

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!

John Isbell 12-26-2017 02:37 PM

OK, I give. But should that be venenum?

Cheers,
John

Aaron Poochigian 12-26-2017 02:51 PM

Venenum indeed, atrum venenum a serpentibus!

John Isbell 12-26-2017 02:54 PM

Eheu!

Cheers,
John

Aaron Poochigian 12-26-2017 10:55 PM

Hmn, this thread has not been nearly as incendiary as I had hoped.

Duncan Gillies MacLaurin 12-27-2017 02:43 AM

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

John Isbell 12-27-2017 04:17 AM

Now we're getting somewhere! I will fetch my popcorn.

John

Andrew Szilvasy 12-27-2017 07:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aaron Poochigian (Post 408105)
Hmn, this thread has not been nearly as incendiary as I had hoped.

Holidays, I bet. I've been thinking on it, but too sick personally to respond as I'd like.

Aaron Novick 01-09-2018 09:01 AM

I've been reading Horace's Odes, in the Shepherd and Michie translations side by side.

Shepherd is vastly better, in most cases.

John Isbell 01-09-2018 01:18 PM

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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