Thursday, November 22, 2018
Construing Vergil
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), Scoop, Book I, Chapter 1:
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Josephine, the eight-year-old Stitch prodigy, sat on the foot of the bed construing her day's passage of Virgil.Vergil, Eclogues 2.58-59 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough):
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"Floribus Austrum," Josephine chanted, "perditus et liquidis immisi fontibus apros; having been lost with flowers in the South and sent into the liquid fountains; apros is wild boars but I couldn't quite make sense of that bit."
Alas, alas! what hope, poor fool, has been mine? Madman, I have let in the south wind to my flowers, and boars to my crystal springs!Related posts:
heu heu, quid volui misero mihi? floribus Austrum
perditus et liquidis immisi fontibus apros.
- Comical Construes
- The Mystery of the Spicy Virgin and Spicy Virgin Revisited
- Medio Tutissimus Ibis
- The Sorrowful Wolf
- The Screaming Fathers
- Dr. Syntax and Mr. Pound
- Delicious Blunders
- Alcinous the Meat-Tray
- A Humorous Construe
- A Howler
