Litsy

Random book from our home library:

📖 Fabulae Mirabiles: Fairy Tales in Latin (Hippocrene Foreign Language Studies) by Victor Barocas

BooksandCoffee4Me Oh, this book is one for my son! He loves Latin and assisted his professor at a conference for instructors of Latin. He may or may not have translated an excerpt of Fahrenheit 451 into Latin for fun. 2d

bibliothecarivs @BooksandCoffee4Me, that's great! I'd like to see that if it's available anywhere. Here's the rest of my Latin collection if he's interested: https://www.librarycat.org/lib/bibliothecarivs/search/tag/Latin. 2d

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Graywacke

Horace, The Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets | Horace

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Several contemporary (2002) poets translating Horace's Odes freely. All must have some knowledge of Latin. All were born from ~1920 to ~1965. So a bunch of older classically inclined poets. Each translation is a combination of Horace's and the poet's meanings. Overall it leaves an interesting impression, and I enjoyed that. I‘ve been working through this since Jan 13, a little bit each morning.

Suet624 Great job on your commitment to checking in on this every morning. I always end up petering out at some point 3d

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 3d

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Trashcanman

The Satires | Juvenal

#thewholethingithinkissick

Leftcoastzen Word ! 2w

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Born.A.Reader

Nora Roberts' In the Garden Trilogy | Nora Roberts

💐 Tulips! Love them! 🌷
💐 💐 Nora Roberts' The Garden Trilogy

@TheSpineView #Two4Tuesday

TheSpineView Thanks for playing ❤️ 🌷 2w

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Graywacke

Horace, The Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets | Horace

Something I found used in California and have been paging through

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 2mo

Hanna-B Hello puppy dog 🐶🐶 2mo

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Doppoetry

The Aeneid of Virgil | Virgil

so-so

This could have been a really interesting spiritual successor (at the time) to Homer, but this read more like Roman Empire propaganda than an original work.

Virgil does have *some* original ideas and portrayals of the characters and events in the overall story, but it still feels like you're better off reading the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Doppoetry Not to say that this *isn't* an important work, it very much is, but I suppose I came into this expecting a more interesting epic poem about heroism and perseverance, and not just veiled “Guys the emperor is a really cool guy, and everything will be okay with him in charge.“ type thing.

No wonder Virgil tried to wipe it from existence, it's a bit *too* on the nose. 2mo

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TheEllieMo

Complete Odes and Epodes | Horace

#Prosperous
#25Alive
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs

Eggs So true👏🏻👏🏻 3mo

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Bookwomble

Satires of Persius: Translated; With an Introduction and Some Notes (Classic Reprint) | Samuel Hemphill

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I'm probably more interested in this book as an artifact than for its contents, which were, nonetheless, interesting.
I picked up this 1901 edition in Durham, and the beautiful inscription shows that it was held by the St. Cuthbert's Society at the university. I can't quite make out the signature, but it looks like J. D. Hall, perhaps.
It was published jointly in Dublin & London, the little bookbinder's sticker suggesting this one was printed ⬇️

Bookwomble ... in Ireland, where the translator, Samuel Hemphill, was an archdeacon of the Anglican church.
As for Persius, satires work best when you know their targets, and my knowledge of Neronian Rome lets me down there, despite the internet. However, the vices of his aristocratic and Imperial targets are all too recognisable, so they do work for me on that level. Interesting, and short enough that I might revisit to see what more I can make of them. 3mo

LeahBergen That‘s very cool. I always love those little stickers! 3mo

Bookwomble @LeahBergen I like the way this one is so obviously cut by hand: I can imagine the hand holding the scissors, the brush pasting the back of the label, and the fingers pressing it down onto the inside cover. I see a brown, high-ceilinged room, and wan light filtering through tall, small-paned windows, and a figure in a thick canvas apron at a table stacked with newly-printed volumes. (I think I've read too many books! 😅) 3mo

LeahBergen You‘ve made me see it perfectly! 😆 3mo

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Bookwomble

Satires of Persius: Translated; With an Introduction and Some Notes (Classic Reprint) | Samuel Hemphill