Catullus

limey · 01-21-2007, 02:54 AM

I did some Catullus poetry in Latin class at school and loved it. Having hit upon a poem we studied back then on the site you reference all I can say is can you choose to get another translation? This site has more understandable translations, for example.
[professional translator] Translating poetry is basically impossible. This guy has gone with the idea of matching the metre and scansion, and in so doing has made the meaning almost inaccessible[/professional translator]. If you need to also get a grasp of the metre and scansion, I'd say look at the original and read it aloud, treating it as simply sounds ....
Hope this helps.

01-21-2007, 02:54 AM	#4
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	I did some Catullus poetry in Latin class at school and loved it. Having hit upon a poem we studied back then on the site you reference all I can say is can you choose to get another translation? This site has more understandable translations, for example. [professional translator] Translating poetry is basically impossible. This guy has gone with the idea of matching the metre and scansion, and in so doing has made the meaning almost inaccessible[/professional translator]. If you need to also get a grasp of the metre and scansion, I'd say look at the original and read it aloud, treating it as simply sounds .... Hope this helps. __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

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