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Who is your favorite Latin author?
I mean, you do know Latin, don't you?

>> No.11921068

Caesar's clear precise prose is best, even Cicero praised it.
Seneca's letters for content.
Terence for comedy.
Catullus for poetry.

>> No.11921115

>>11921019
Probably Borges than Bolano

>> No.11921132

Vergil aight.
Cicero kinda sucks.
Ovid is based.
Casesar can be interesting. My only problem is when he called Britain a “triangle”.

>> No.11921157

>>11921068
>preferring Menander dimidiatus over Plautus
>liking that little bitch of Catullus
>No Lucretius
>No Virgil
>No Ovid

>> No.11921159

Marcus Aurelius is the only one I’ve read desu.
In English (embarrast)

>> No.11921187

>>11921159
And he wrote in Greek my man

>> No.11921233

>>11921157
Terence's Latin is much more quaint and graceful than plautus' who seems a little affected for me.
I do love vergil, especially the georgiks. Some of the aeneid is mediocre though (book 5 is some of the best Latin there is though imo)
I haven't read any Lucretius yet.
Ovid I don't overly enjoy, I ended up reading more than half of the metamorphosis in translation. Maybe I'll try again some day.

>> No.11921282

>>11921019
Plutach

but i don't read Latin and I doubt many people here do unless they happen to be studying the classics in uni

>> No.11921290

>>11921282
Plutarch wrote in Greek

>> No.11921297

Jerome
Clementine
Augustine
Aquinas
Kempis

>> No.11921332

>>11921290
>>11921187
lmao

>> No.11921896

Virgil
Aquinas
Caesar
/thread

>> No.11922007

>not one mention of Horace in the whole thread

This place is such a pit

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>>11922007
I think your head is such a pit

>> No.11922153

>>11922030
>proving my point

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>>11922153

>> No.11922181

>>11921233
Read Lucretius and don't understimate Plautus, as his strenght lies in the comedic effect created by his wordplay and repartees.
Definitely give a second chance to Ovid, starting from his elegies.

I agree on praising Caesar's plain and balanced prose, I myself learned some excerpts of "De Bello Gallico".

>> No.11922203

>>11922173
This place is filled to the brim with teenage pseud edgelords on a literary LARP. A cursory glance at the quality of posts in any given thread will confirm this for you.

>> No.11922207

>>11922173
>xkcd posting
Kill yourself plebbit

>> No.11922706

>>11921019
Caesar easily

>> No.11923316

>>11922007
Horace is too hard for me t.b.h.

>> No.11923346

>>11921019
I tried reading De Bello Gallico and got a good few chapters in, but I was just too much of a brainlet to press forward. I also got a line into De Rerum Natura before quitting that, too. Even with a Latin dictionary, I can't fucking read. I wish I actually knew Latin.

>> No.11923347

>>11921019
P E T R O N I U S

then Catullus

>> No.11923410

>>11922007
The only post worth a damn in this sorry thread.

>> No.11923418

>>11923410
>implying you don't wanna fuck qt traps

>> No.11923447

>>11921132
>Cicero kinda sucks.
say that to my face and see what happens

>> No.11923495

>>11923447
The good parts of Cicero are great but he preambles too much esse videatur

>> No.11924504

Martial, the original insult comic and used codex

>> No.11924748

>>11923346
wheelock

>> No.11925751

>>11924748
If he read a few chapters of Caesar he's probably beyond wheelock