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Set the Cub Cadet on 6, its top speed, and rocketed through the fluffy snow on our driveway. Felt like cheating. It’s gonna stay cold so even the three or four inches we had would stick around a while, a la Minnesota. Better to whisk away to the sides, let the solar snow shovel do its work.<\/p>\n
I’ve been working on Latin this morning, more of the comparison method, checking my English against Loeb’s, Penguin Prose and a translation by Charles Martin. My head begins to throb after about an hour. Snow blowing seems like an acceptable alternative.<\/p>\n
Here’s a few verses as a sample. This is entirely my own translation.<\/p>\n
Medea Flees or The Flight of Medea<\/strong>, \u00a0Metamorphoses, Book VII, 350-398<\/p>\n 350b Had she not flown into the air\u00a0on serpent’s wings<\/p>\n 351b Would she not be taken for punishment? \u00a0She fled<\/p>\n 352b above richly shaded Mt. Pelion, Chiron’s home, and<\/p>\n 353b above Othrys in Thessaly, over the spot made known by the fate of ancient Cerambus.<\/p>\n 354b\u00a0He, raised into the air on wings here\u00a0by\u00a0work of the nymphs ,<\/p>\n 355b\u00a0\u00a0escaped,\u00a0not overwhelmed by Deucalion’s flood<\/p>\n 356b \u00a0when the burdened earth was being\u00a0buried by the spreading sea.<\/p>\n 357b \u00a0On her left she passed Aeolian Pitane<\/p>\n 358b \u00a0And its great likeness of a dragon made of stone,<\/p>\n 359b \u00a0And the grove of Idaeus, where the son of Bacchus stole a young bullock<\/p>\n 360b \u00a0hidden by deceitful Bacchus under the likeness of a deer,<\/p>\n 361b \u00a0 She passed over Paris, the father of Corythi, buried under a small mound of sand,<\/p>\n 362b \u00a0And over the fields\u00a0Maera frightened by strange barking.<\/p>\n 363b \u00a0She flew over the city of Eurypylus where the mothers of \u00a0Coa wore horns<\/p>\n 364b \u00a0When the band of Hercules dispersed to Rhodes,<\/p>\n 365b \u00a0dear to Phoebus Apollo, and Ialysos, home of the Telchines,<\/p>\n 366b \u00a0the eyes of whom by beholding infected everyone,<\/p>\n 367b \u00a0Jupiter, detesting them, plunged\u00a0them under the sea to his brother, Poseidon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 368b \u00a0She then passed over\u00a0the\u00a0city walls of ancient Cartheia on the island Cea.<\/p>\n 369b \u00a0where\u00a0Alcidamas, her father, marveled that \u00a0the body of his\u00a0daughter<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yule \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 New (Stock Show) Moon Set the Cub Cadet on 6, its top speed, and rocketed through the … Continue reading The Flight of Medea<\/span>