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12-26-2017, 02:27 PM
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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!
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12-26-2017, 02:37 PM
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OK, I give. But should that be venenum?
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John
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12-26-2017, 02:51 PM
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Venenum indeed, atrum venenum a serpentibus!
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12-26-2017, 02:54 PM
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Eheu!
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John
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12-26-2017, 10:55 PM
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Hmn, this thread has not been nearly as incendiary as I had hoped.
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12-27-2017, 02:43 AM
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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.
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12-27-2017, 04:17 AM
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Now we're getting somewhere! I will fetch my popcorn.
John
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12-27-2017, 07:57 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Aaron Poochigian
Hmn, this thread has not been nearly as incendiary as I had hoped.
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Holidays, I bet. I've been thinking on it, but too sick personally to respond as I'd like.
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01-09-2018, 09:01 AM
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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.
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01-09-2018, 01:18 PM
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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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