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Opening of the Aeneid: I sing of arms and the man, Troy 's who was the first from the shores of Italy, a fugitive of fate, left the Trojan shore, a lot of havi
by hugh3 16y ago
Opening of the Aeneid:
I sing of arms and the man, Troy 's who was the first from the shores of Italy, a fugitive of fate, left the Trojan shore, a lot of having been tossed on both land and sea by the force of the cruel of the mindful that leads on high because of the anger; much in war too endured it until they found a city, and bring his gods to Latium, whence the Latin race , the Alban fathers, and the high walls of Rome.
which isn't too bad, actually, especially as I've never really heard a satisfactory translation of "I sing of arms, and the man who..." which is not a sensible sort of English sentence structure.
- zeynel1 16y agoI am just reading Lombardo translation. Google does not do well with this famous line: sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt --> "there are tears for things, and our mortal matters touch the" It should be more like: "Tears in the nature of things, hearts touched by human transience." http://hiddensymmetries.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/sunt-lacrimae-rerum-et-mentem-mortalia-tangunt/ http://hiddensymmetries.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/sunt-lacrim...