Having a couple of days off work means I get to lounge around in my vacation togs, reading mainly. I have been running through Woolf's Rome: An Empire's Story, which is a thoroughly enjoyable and informative piece of literature: I can see why the University have chosen it to be on the syllabus. Excellent choice. Anyhow, Pliny's letters and the two Tacitus' (History and Agricola/Germania) have just arrived at the book-store. I am betting they're boned (seconds) like the last couple I bought. Roman Dorset had seven images missing (a mistake during printing) and in Greg's book another printing error occoured whereby all the pages were printed too close together meaning one has to really strain and open the book's spine, in order to make it legible. Alas, I trust these next three will be well. If that is not the case, then I'll just have to suck it up, and roll with the punches. In any case, I was writing to my friend Didier. Check it out:
salve Didier!
hās lītteræ invenit bene fuerīs sperābō. ante rārī annuorum quando fui tibi domo vidui Ianthinam legebatur unius libellui in linguam Latinam mirum cogitavi fuit. abhinc non solum plene amaui pro disco Latinam cadi, sed etiam comperiebam musice carminum antiquorum vulgarium habui. spectaculia musici hic locum neque eisdem ac sunt montium Gallicorum. artes de musico ipsi Jo-Jo, Stan, & Arno et allia omnes desidero, paene quemadmodum te meum carum amicum. quod nec solum musicis (quis pro ioculis sunt) sed sermonis docti partituerimus.
intro ad scholam fuit facilem, sed nunc schoenobates idem sum. quando eram discipulus in annum secundum dicebas mihi ut illos libros universi matutinos mysticos erant. saltem concordabamus illis philosiphis Platonisque Aristotelis date respecto dignis. scriptor rerum quemadmodem habebar gaudium lexi litterae Plinarum secundus. iam sextus (tertium re vera) annui in universo Britannici, discam “A-CCCXL” archaeologos Romanorumque “A-CCLXVI” lingua Latina. id amo, valde.
Vale.
Maximus.
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