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"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.