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Anonymous Mon Jan 27 16:48:12 2020 No.14617595 [Reply] [Original]

>God grant my enemies high moral tone;
>God grant my enemies a bed that's empty,
>To sprawl there in the middle all alone.

-- Ovid

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 27 16:52:29 2020 No.14617635 Well /lit/, are YOU his enemy? Has God granted his wish? Have sex.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 27 16:58:19 2020 No.14617691 >>14617595 he only had to pray for the first one to get the same effect .

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 27 16:59:35 2020 No.14617704 File: 45 KB, 324x440, 51YnZLSRarL._SL500_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14617691

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 27 16:59:45 2020 No.14617705 >>14617691 >doesn't understand poetry.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 27 17:06:44 2020 No.14617748 >>14617704 accurate desu

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 27 17:09:17 2020 No.14617761 >translation

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 27 17:12:02 2020 No.14617782 File: 35 KB, 728x546, E9bwDOeg.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14617761 >Implying you can read Latin

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 27 21:12:37 2020 No.14619150 >>14617761 Hostibus eveniat vita severa meis Hostibus eveniat viduo dormire cubili Et medio laxe ponere membra toro Feel free to translate it at your leisure

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 27 21:14:37 2020 No.14619164 >>14617595 damn, ovid spoke english?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 27 21:16:19 2020 No.14619173 File: 29 KB, 354x286, 1494478042273.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14619150 Enemies the austere life Enemies fall sleep in a lonely bed; The members of the loosely place the bed

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 27 21:26:25 2020 No.14619236 >>14619173 Let the austere life befall my enemies Let it befall them to sleep in an empty bed And in its midst put their limp limbs on that swollen hump

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 27 21:27:19 2020 No.14619247 >>14617595 why'd he do that to me

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 27 21:33:00 2020 No.14619270 >>14617704 do the retarded even have an intact soul according to christianity?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 27 21:45:31 2020 No.14619351 >>14619236 better than the OP version desu. only really good poets should do verse translations. (pope)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 27 22:14:34 2020 No.14619505 >>14619351 I should've said mound rather than swollen hump but wanted to play up the double entendre to spite Melville's prudish translation

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