Re: Translate please?

Posted by paxvox on June 10, 2003, at 18:29:43

In reply to Translate please? » paxvox, posted by Oddipus Rex on June 8, 2003, at 12:18:59

Excellent! Excellent Rex! Geese, to think anyone still reads Virgil! Indeed, the quotes were taken from the 9th book of the Aeneid, and translate roughly as:
"Has Heaven (cried Nisus first) this warmth bestowed? Heaven? Or a thought that prompts me like a god? This glorious warmth, my friend, that breaks my rest? Some high exploit lies throbbing in my breast". And then futher down in that chapter:
"Join in one wish, our leader to recall. Now, would they give to you the prize I claim (for I could rest contented with the fame-)An easy road, I think, I can survey. Beneath yonder summit to direct my way."
Well done, well done indeed, Rex!
My 5 years of Latin in H.S. and college didn't got totally to waste.
PAX

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