Don’t Read Too Much | Episode XIX
New Humanists
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Poverty Is an Honest Affair, Honest Thing?
Reading something in the original language, especially when you're reading a master like seneca or virgil, and then you read a translation, you're going to bump into the it's not a nice problem. Especially with poetry. And i mean, the nores, it's one of those beautifully flexible latin words. Ah, so it'sa, it's a happy matem. Poverty is a happy affair. So happy poverty is an honest affair, more honorable, right? A. Well, because epicurus was ing in greek, so he's quoting probably a latin translation of epicurus, and we're reading the english and latin. You're like two removes
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