Me: 1. Ovid: 0.
Haha, I finished my Latin summer work! 37 lines of Ovid in an hour; I rule. At life, the universe, and geeking. And I only looked in my English copy for a hint once.
See, Ovid is one of your more difficult poets, in that he is very good at the Latin poetry style, which consists of actively working against basic laws of syntax. As in, you know the theory that adjectives should be somewhere near the noun they modify? Well, Ovid gets POINTS for deliberately putting the adjectives on one side of the verb and the nouns on the other, and just letting you guess which goes with which.
That said, it helps to have read someone else's translation and, thus, know what's supposed to be happening. Apollo is such a prat. And very very gay, but that's another story. Several, actually.
I do love translating Latin. There may be something very wrong with me.
Subjects complete: 1. Subjects remaining: 3. Bah.
See, Ovid is one of your more difficult poets, in that he is very good at the Latin poetry style, which consists of actively working against basic laws of syntax. As in, you know the theory that adjectives should be somewhere near the noun they modify? Well, Ovid gets POINTS for deliberately putting the adjectives on one side of the verb and the nouns on the other, and just letting you guess which goes with which.
That said, it helps to have read someone else's translation and, thus, know what's supposed to be happening. Apollo is such a prat. And very very gay, but that's another story. Several, actually.
I do love translating Latin. There may be something very wrong with me.
Subjects complete: 1. Subjects remaining: 3. Bah.