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To: Zoltan! who wrote (73721)2/2/2000 3:16:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
Want to get really good at insulting, abusing, and insinuating in Classical Latin? Zoltan? Anyone else?

If so, here is the perfect book for you:

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To: Zoltan! who wrote (73721)2/2/2000 3:16:00 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 108807
 
The Aeneid

By Virgil

Written 19 B.C.E

Translated by John Dryden

Book I (opening)

Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc'd by fate,
And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate,
Expell'd and exil'd, left the Trojan shore.
Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore,
And in the doubtful war, before he won
The Latian realm, and built the destin'd town;
His banish'd gods restor'd to rites divine,
And settled sure succession in his line,
From whence the race of Alban fathers come,
And the long glories of majestic Rome.
O Muse! the causes and the crimes relate;
What goddess was provok'd, and whence her hate;
For what offense the Queen of Heav'n began
To persecute so brave, so just a man;
Involv'd his anxious life in endless cares,
Expos'd to wants, and hurried into wars!
Can heav'nly minds such high resentment show,
Or exercise their spite in human woe?