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13443779 No.13443779 [Reply] [Original]

Latin or Greek books that should be read?
make some recommendations

>> No.13443822

>>13443779
read only Plato and ignore anyone who disagree

>> No.13443837

>>13443779
>sigma pi phi

It’s like he never took an engineer tier math class

>> No.13443866

>>13443779
this tattoo infuriates me on a number of different levels

>> No.13443888
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I really enjoyed Lucretius and read him around when I read Ovid, too. I love English as poetry, I know they aren't the original versions but what they translate to I adored.

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Aeneas in the original Latin.

>> No.13444705

>VΣΠΦ
>VΦDΦ
>VΦCΦ

Why the alternating latin and greek letters? What is the meaning of this?

>Oospph
>oophdph
>oophsph

Is this tattoo supposed to commemorate a big dick in his mouth?

>> No.13444756

>>13444705
It's stylized to look like the english letters of "veni, vidi, vici." Take the epsilon as E, the phi as I, and the pi as N.

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>>13444756
VENO
VODO
VOCO