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Only three languages with native proficiency? Tsk tsk. The rest of us are perfectly fluent in six or seven (give or take five or six).
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Alas, Roger, personal circumstances over the past sixty-odd years have led to that pesky insufficiency, which I tried to use as a justification for my votes.
Had I a better knowledge of Latin (other than a long-ago exposure to the Latin Mass) I might have been able to assess the Catullus translation, which I thought was quite effective as a poem in English.