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Selected Poems of Horace

by Horace

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This particular edition offers translations from select odes etc. from Horace fans through the ages. At the back there's a glossary of the English as well as explanations of the references. In some cases more than one translation of a particular ode (notably Odes book ii 13). The translators give their own titles to the works and I hardly pay attention to the numbers, but I was reading one and thought,
"This sounds oddly familiar." Then I flipped back a page and realized they were the same poem. The differences were so far off from each other that I was forced to find the Latin online to compare. Latin is so tidy compared to messy, if colorful, analytic English and the second translation seemed much more in that line in its relative simplicity. The most annoying thing about all the translations was the rhyming. Arrrrgh! They were really stretching to make poetry that didn't rhyme into some that did.
  marfita | Mar 18, 2024 |

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