Spring Bloodroot Moon
At my next session with Greg, Latin tutor Greg, on April 12th, I’m going to tell him that I’m going to go to Book I and start my for real translation of Metamorphoses. In that process I plan to not only translate but make notes, careful notes, for a commentary. I don’t know to what extent it will ever see the light of day, but the effort will embed Ovid and his work even more firmly in me.
This translating will find me moving beyond the literal English and the good English to what I find to be the best English, at least from my perspective. This means I will be comparing translations, doing research into the myths, etymology, Ovid’s life and times, frequency of a words occurrence. I’m not really quite ready to do this, but it feels like this is what will take me to the next gate through which I need to pass.