Tuesday 27 October 2015

An honourable predecessor

"This is an insanely ambitious project", said the blogger known to his public only as Nick, back in the day:
 
http://martialis.blogspot.co.uk/

It's all still there - in 2004 and early 2005 he set out to translate all Martial's poems. Nick made it most of the way through Book 3, and as attempts go, that's got to be plenty good enough; certainly I'd never have the nerve to try. Kudos.

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