Time for change.
Just for fun.
I had 5 years of Latin and 2 years of French. Did Julus Caesar, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Catullus, Virgil's Aeneid, L'étranger, Les Misérables, Jean de La Fontaine Poems & more. Je aime 'La Cigale et la Fourmi'. It is permanently burned into my brain.
La Cigale, ayant chanté tout l'été. se trouva fort dépourvue quand la bis fut venue ... LOL
French is a piece of cake compared to Latin.
Catullus 13
Cēnābis bene, mī Fabulle, apud mē
paucīs, sī tibi dī favent, diēbus,
sī tēcum attuleris bonam atque magnam
cēnam, nōn sine candidā puellā
et vīnō et sale et omnibus cachinnīs.
Haec sī, inquam, attuleris, venuste noster,
cēnābis bene; nam tuī Catullī
plēnus sacculus est arāneārum.
Sed contrā accipiēs merōs amōrēs,
seu quid suāvius ēlegantiusve est:
nam unguentum dabŏ, quod meae puellae
dōnārunt Venerēs Cupīdinēsque;
quod tū cum olfaciēs, deōs rogābis
tōtum ut tē faciant, Fabulle, nāsum.
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