16 May
2011
16 May
'11
12:01 p.m.
From: David Griffith
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 5:04 PM
On Sun, 15 May 2011, Rich Alderson wrote:
> Personally, I like Leonard and Smith's edition
of _De rerum natura_,
> and the Pharr edition of the _Aeneid_ is good for beginners. Then you
> get into the long stuff, Cicero's law pleadings and the Catilinarians,
> Caesar's self-promotion, Catullus' wonderful dirty poetry, and the
> whole of Latinity.
If you're really nutty, you can read the Latin
versions of the Harry
Potter series.
You had better be able to read Cicero and Caesar when you tackle those.
Besides the first two books in Latin (and the first in classical Greek),
I also have _Tela Charlottae_, _Winnie-ille-Pu_[1] and _Winnie-ille-Pu
Semper Ludet_,[2] and _Ferdinandus Taurum_. One of these days I'll pick
up _Alice in terra mirabile_ and _Alice per speculo_, and maybe some
Asterix or Tin-tin or Babar.
The people who do this kind of translation are serious scholars taking a
break from serious scholastics, and are only interested in doing things
they can be proud of--not unlike restoring a half-century old bit of
electronics to working condition...[3]
[1] "Qualis fabulas diliget?" "De se ipso, nam talis ursus est."
[2] Why it's not _Domus Quadrivio Pu_ I don't know.
[3] Some day I'll finish _Ille Hobbitus_.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/