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classics-cassandra · 2 years

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Classical authors are all out here like: I’m going to write the most beautiful and powerful simile you’ve ever read :) and the minute you try to put it into another language it will disintegrate like wet paper and you’ll be left with a clunky piece of text that makes little sense

#reading ovid is so much fun!#campus erat campi #the Fabii river simile works so well in Latin #but in English it is Too Long to make a nice sentence #classics memes #ancient literature memes #tagamemnon #ancient greek #latin #ovid my belovid

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