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[latinthusiast]

bwaah

honors thesis is fix

[latinthusiast]

t-14 minutes to defense

oh man. oh man. oh man i am gonna defend my thesis. oh man. 

oh man. well what could go wrong.... i’m a latin major with a latin thesis in greek. this is gonna be great.

[latinthusiast]

the end of the thesis

is impending. within the next 4 days, preferably 2, because if i can finish this by monday then my brain can think about NOT GREEK and then everything will be just great.

but actually, i’m pretty confident i can get this done between today and monday afternoon.

[latinthusiast]

thesis so close to done

and today i go through my glossary and fix as much as i can

it’s 4 full pages single spaced

ugh. so dry.

on the upside, my translation reads more ‘english-y’

[latinthusiast]

οὐ τοὺς κρατοῦντας χρὴ κρατεῖν ἃ μὴ χρεὼν οὐδ' εὐτυχοῦντας εὖ δοκεῖν πράξειν ἀεί

Euripides, Hecuba 282-3

i mean, you know what they say about τυχή...

it isn't necessary for the powerful to excercise power in those things which aren't right, nor for the lucky to consider it good to do so (that is, be successful) all the time.

[latinthusiast]

thesis milestone

got through my first translation of De Imitatione!

much editing to be done. also, much commentary to be written.

[latinthusiast]

σφαίρῃ δηὖτέ με πορφυρῇ βάλλων χρυσοκόμης Ἔρως νήνι ποικιλοσαμβάλῳ συμπαίζειν προκαλεῖται• ἡ δ', ἐστὶν γὰρ ἀπ' εὐκτίτου Λέσβου, τὴν μὲν ἐμὴν κόμην, λευκὴ γάρ, καταμέμφεται, πρὸς δ' ἄλλην τινὰ χάσκει.

Anacreon 358 (as Campbell numbers them)

Now golden-haired Eros, striking me

again with the purple orb

calls to the girl with mottled sandals

                to play;

and she, since she is

from well-furnished Lesbos,

finds fault with my hair,

for it is white, gapes

              at another woman.

(translation my own)

[latinthusiast]

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