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Anonymous Thu Jul 4 03:17:31 2019 No.13408138 [Reply] [Original]

Best translation of Aeneid?
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>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 03:24:10 2019 No.13408151 >>13408138 Robert Fagles And I’m fighting JD Salinger

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 04:01:02 2019 No.13408236 Virgil's version is the best, considering that (A) you're posting on /lit/ and (B) you have to know Latin to post on /lit/, which implies that (C) you know Latin I would win, but I don't want to hurt her, Virginia Woolf was a lovely woman

Anonymous Thu Jul 4 04:20:38 2019 No.13408297

>>13408138
Dunno read it in Latin because Virgil is babby's first Latin epic. I remember more about grammar than the plotline of it though so don't trust >>13408236 that it'll improve your reading experience. It will improve your grammar though.

Pretty sure Graham Greene could take me. And if he couldn't, MI6 would take me out anyway.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 04:21:23 2019 No.13408299 >>13408138 Oxfords world classics.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 04:21:46 2019 No.13408300 Dryden, obviously

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 05:38:24 2019 No.13408505 >>13408138 Thucydides in his prime would almost certainly destroy me in a fight, the only possible advantage I might have is he would likely be quite a bit shorter than me.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 05:54:30 2019 No.13408551 >>13408505 You'd still be dead, if taller.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 05:58:20 2019 No.13408560 Sartre, he has the advantage of high FOV but i'd still destroy him

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 06:03:12 2019 No.13408572 >>13408138 I don't wanna fight tolstoy, I just wanna have a nice convo with him about Christ

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 06:18:21 2019 No.13408644 >>13408572 You need old Tolstoy not prime Tolstoy for that

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 06:19:19 2019 No.13408648 >>13408138 Hahahahahahaha Read more women, you incels Marilynne Robinson for me She might still kick my ass but at least she’d pray for me after she was done

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 06:22:32 2019 No.13408661 >>13408648 Alice Munroe here. I'm pretty confident.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 07:17:56 2019 No.13408800 >>13408138 >Have to fight Borges He'd win, because I couldn't bring myself to hurt Borges. Also, he would probably enjoy the excuse to knife someone like a real gaucho.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 07:18:46 2019 No.13408802 >>13408138 Anton Levay How fucked am i?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 07:18:59 2019 No.13408803 >>13408236 >Virginia Woolf was a lovely woman This is the most wrong post I've ever seen on this board, Woolf was narcissistic scum.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 07:23:36 2019 No.13408815 >>13408803 Why don't you just admit that you hate women, incel?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 11:46:46 2019 No.13409810 >>13408138 King Solomon with an enslaved demon army. I'm fucked lads

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 11:50:54 2019 No.13409829 I feel like I'm on even ground with albert camus?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 12:27:25 2019 No.13410013 >>13408560 >high FOV lol >>13408138 >have to fight God >in his prime i surrender

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 12:59:09 2019 No.13410164 >>13408138 I think I could probably take Céline

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 13:00:32 2019 No.13410172 >>13408138 >Philip K Dick Did that nigg ever even have a prime?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 13:04:06 2019 No.13410192 >>13408138 Oxford Press produced a very readable translation. Ahl, I think is the name of the translator?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 16:26:52 2019 No.13411149 I'm pretty sure I could fuck Jaegon Kim up very badly

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 16:28:19 2019 No.13411157 >>13408138 Prime Murokami

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 16:28:31 2019 No.13411159 >Gabriel García Márquez Call me Mario Vargas Llosa, 'cause that fella is going down

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 16:28:34 2019 No.13411161 >>13408648 How did you like Housekeeping?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 17:29:08 2019 No.13411494 File: 72 KB, 820x550, jordan peterson.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13408138 it's on bitches! start sellin' tickets

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 19:44:11 2019 No.13412149 Solomon was known for his sickly, diminutive body. Let's see your wisdom save you from this you skinny kike

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 19:52:31 2019 No.13412184 >>13408138 >Plato's complete works Never had a chance, I'm lifting and getting stronger but Plato was shredded. He'd break me in two.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 20:17:34 2019 No.13412277 File: 44 KB, 639x640, 14390622_1732479140347111_4597334610998601312_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Mine Kampf by Adolf Hitler

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 20:30:25 2019 No.13412325 File: 223 KB, 400x400, ca8aa195d2ccc38da6800678a9d2ae8a_400x400.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkOJ9uNj9EY

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 20:33:10 2019 No.13412336 Flann O'Brien Funny to find he does not exist. Well just as one cannot find a person without a name one cannot well fight a name without a person. It were as well as if fighting a man recently deceased of some tragic bicycle accident.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 20:39:51 2019 No.13412370 >>13408505 Yeah I'm fucked too going against prime Plato. He'd probably snap my spine in two with some wrestling shenanigans.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 22:51:07 2019 No.13412801 >>13408138 What would you consider Stephen Hawking's 'prime' to be?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 22:53:23 2019 No.13412807 >>13412370 >Plato >>13408505 >Thucydides I'm going against fucking Aristotle. If I have studied up correctly, he was jacked as well was he not? Probably moreso than either of them. :3 fuck

Anonymous Thu Jul 4 22:57:30 2019 No.13412822

>>13408815
Not him, but she was nothing special. She's celebrated because she's a woman. That's all there is to it.

>>13408138

The Loeb version. Read it once normally, then read it again comparing the Latin text and the translation page by page. Even if you don't understand a single word of the original text, knowing what it's meant to sound like will enhance your experience quite a lot. Maybe it will even instill within you a wish to learn Latin!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 23:00:00 2019 No.13412828 >>13412807 Military service was mandatory, was it not? They were probably in pretty good shape during their prime. >>13408505 >>13412370 Get fucked. You won't leave such a fight alive lol.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 23:03:47 2019 No.13412843 >>13412336 The bicycle might kill you though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 23:04:57 2019 No.13412848 >>13412370 Plato was probably a manlet though

Anonymous Thu Jul 4 23:14:38 2019 No.13412889

>>13412828
>in pretty good shape
Historians used doubt the accuracy of their accounts because prime olympic modern roided athletes have trouble replicating their speeds and strengths and various manoeuvres. The problem is their weaponry and boats and battlegrounds only work if you are that strong quick and fucking based. Macedon Sparta and Attica all were so ripped they were basically the ancient equivalent of nuclear weapons.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 23:53:27 2019 No.13413024 >The Bible Wish me luck

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 23:53:31 2019 No.13413025 >>13412889 Yeah supposedly a Spartan armor weighs 70 pounds. You have to train for mobility carrying that shit.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 23:55:19 2019 No.13413032 >>13413024 Yeah but what book was it? :3

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 23:56:32 2019 No.13413038 >>13413024 You won't be the first person to wrestle with God himself.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 4 23:57:29 2019 No.13413041 >>13408138 If I'm fighting Jean Genet, am I dead bros? Is he a fairy that'll be easy to knock down or will he knife me remorselessly and then fuck my corpse?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 5 00:03:26 2019 No.13413058 >>13408138 Just finished The Republic >just want Plato to choke me out

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 5 02:40:23 2019 No.13413520 >>13408138 Does anyone know if the Cranch translation is any good? Also, we don't know enough about Aristophanes to know how strong he was. I'm presuming he probably worked out, though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 5 03:03:51 2019 No.13413584 >>13408138 Homer Ancient Greeks were gigachad athletes so i think id be fucked. If you subscribe to the theory that Homer was more than one person, then i’m fucked even more

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 5 03:09:39 2019 No.13413605 >>13408138 I'd stomp a second mudhole in Harriet Beecher Stowe's ass.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 5 12:08:55 2019 No.13415364 >>13408802 LaVay? He would be good at trash talk maybe.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 5 12:10:39 2019 No.13415369 File: 114 KB, 1000x817, Krasznahorkai-ParisReview.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] i feel like krasz is probably a pretty weedy guy, i think i could take him

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