I'm shockingly poorly read for a Classics student
It came out at my interview I'd not read the Aeneid cover to cover. Still haven't. Ah well. And no, that's perfectly correct. I'm having to deal with sentences like "Pelidae tunc ego forti congressum Aenean nec dis nec uiribus aequis nube caua rapui", which has got several nasty bits in it. Not least because there's no participle of "to be" in Latin...

I'm in London, so I can safely say I'm never bored. I love it here! But can't wait to be back in good old Manchester, where a train into town will cost me £1.25 both ways...
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 22:29, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Now that
is Latin way beyond me... I only did it for three years and I was bad at it.

Never read the Aeneid either. Read most of the Odyssey, which I actually quite liked. I want to read the one by Petronius about Trimalcho's dinner party, but I've not found a copy anywhere yet.

Hopefully I will be moving to London at some point... the bright lights are calling!
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 22:38, Reply)

Ha, that sentence took me ages, with my uberdictionary and grammar.
It's got stupid things in it like Greek accusatives and ablative absolutes with no verbs (due to aforementioned problem with esse). If it makes you feel any better, if you talked about political problems in Argentina in the 19th century I'd be just as at sea :)

Oh, the Satyricon? I've read bits of that. There's a bit about playing with young boys' balls in it. One of the tattoos I want has something to do with that. Trimalchio's Dinner Party is interesting, it's nice to see the problems with the "nouveau riche" is an age-old problem. Juvenal's Satires are good too. Very entertaining :)

I've no idea where Coventry is. I know it's South, but my geography is Highlands of Scotland down to Edinburgh down to Newcastle down to Manchester down to Birmingham down to London down to Cornwall. So very patchy :)
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 5 Nov 2009, 22:49, Reply)