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To: vladimir998

When I was in High School, we read (parts of) the Aeneid in Latin. (Wish I could remember enough Latin to quote from it, now.)


24 posted on 11/18/2017 1:54:24 AM PST by VietVet
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To: VietVet
The famous opening line:

Arma virumque cano ...

"I sing of arms and a man..."

So there you have it. A supposedly feminist translator spends her time on an epic poem about a male warrior. Not that its a bad piece of scholarship, but kind of ironic that the media is blowing it up (as usual) for being something its not.

25 posted on 11/18/2017 2:07:42 AM PST by chimera
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