I've been translating Catullus, and I recently tried to write something myself in hendecasyllabics. It is deathly difficult, and I'm probably just stupid, but I couldn't write a single line. Have any of you ever done this? I'd like to see what you've done.
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Originally posted by DRoseDARs
*Sound of crickets chirping...*
*...in Latin*"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
2004 Presidential Candidate
2008 Presidential Candidate (for what its worth)
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*irpchay *irpchay *irpchay~ If Tehben spits eggs at you, jump on them and throw them back. ~ Eventis ~ Eventis Dungeons & Dragons 6th Age Campaign: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4: (Unspeakable) Horror on the Hill ~
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Are you sure it wouldn't be "Chirpus?"Lime roots and treachery!
"Eventually you're left with a bunch of unmemorable posters like Cyclotron, pretending that they actually know anything about who they're debating pointless crap with." - Drake Tungsten
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Originally posted by Cyclotron
Are you sure it wouldn't be "Chirpus?"~ If Tehben spits eggs at you, jump on them and throw them back. ~ Eventis ~ Eventis Dungeons & Dragons 6th Age Campaign: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4: (Unspeakable) Horror on the Hill ~
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@ Ming
Taking it all a bit too seriously?
Mingo moderatore omnes scriptores Apolytoniae magno cum timore vivent.
Marcum bonum administratorem esse constat.
Rah frater maior Mingi est, autem potestatem minorem habere videtur.
Ecthelium scriptorem optimum esse scimus.
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