For my part, as a student, I'd prefer a translation that captures the poetry rather than the latin, when studying a text in translation. Let us be moved by beauty, and forgive the odd mistranslation. I took up Greek when studying the Oresteia in translation, and finding a passage incomprehensible, sought out another translation; I was astounded to the second translation so far removed from the first as to be a different poem. If only Richmond Lattimore had been a Latin scholar too.
Has anyone else read the (fairly recent, I think) David West translation of the Aeneid? He seems to take quite a lot of liberties with the latin, though its readable enough. Day Lewis put me off from the first line - translating 'Arma uirumque cano' 'I tell of...'
Any other Aussies on the list going to the ASCS conference in Bendigo?
regards Helen
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