/lit/ - Literature

>be me
>learning Latin
>reading Vergil's ecologues
>come across the word frondosus
>see that it came into English as frondose
>making gains in both Latin and English eo tempore
>mfw

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>Despite his capabilities of transforming and making original that which was once Greek, his imagination blew his course astray far too many times towards rough waves. Although he was one of the best readers and imitators of the Greek poets, he lacked their graceful restraint and indulged in many laborious descriptions. What took him a page, Dante could do in two lines.