Greg Farnum writes of me (and to me):
>It sounds like you yourself are a poet. I'd love to know a little more
>about your work.
I'm not a poet, but have sometimes attempted to translate poetry. I once
did a translation of a famous ancient Roman epitaph in archaic Latin that
begins "hospes quod deico paullum est asta ac pellege", which I rendered:
Stranger, these lines, they are but few,
Stand and read through.
But I wasn't happy with the rest of it. If anyone can complete the
translation successfully, keeping to my verse-form (each line of the Latin
becoming one rhyming couplet in English, with eight syllables in the first
line and four in the second, the metre being the usual mixture of iambs and
trochees), please send your version to me--privately, since this has
nothing to do with Virgil. I happen to believe that poetry, like anything
else, can be written collaboratively, and I'll award a virtual chocolate
fish to the author of what I judge to be the best version.
Simon Cauchi
Freelance Editor and Indexer
13 Riverview Terrace, Hamilton, New Zealand
Telephone and facsimile (+64) 7-854-9229, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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