What's the Best Thing You've Read in Latin in the Last Five Years?

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I don't read alotis as horace odes one five is the sort of famous, crisp, multa graculus taper in resa. What do latin speakers and readers get about ancient rome that non latin speakers miss? I like a, likea being able to sit with people from two thousand years agoan and see how many of their concerns are similar or so different. And so weird in a pretty direct way.

Is Matt Levine a modern-day Horace? Like Matt, Horace has a preoccupation with wealth and the law. There’s a playful humor as he segues from topic to topic. An ability to read Latin. And many of Horace’s letters are about the length of a Bloomberg View column. QED, says Tyler.

So Matt, the Latin teacher turned lawyer turned investment banker turned finance writer, recently joined Tyler for a conversation on Horace and more, including cryptocurrencies, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nabakov, New York, Uber, financial regulation, market volatility, M&A, whether finance is nerdy, and why panic is central to the Matt Levine production function.

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