A Long Silence (2013)
“Non aliter tamen Dimovit obstantes propinquos, Et populum reditus morantem, Quam si clientum longa negotiaDijudicata lite relinqueret, Tendens Venafranos in agros, Aut Lacedaemonium Tarentum.
—HORACE, Odes, Book III, No. V He knew perfectly what torment his barbarous enemies held destined for him. Nevertheless he pushed gently aside his family that sought to prevent his passing: he made a way through the crowd that tried to delay his departure, and embarked for Carthage with mien as contented a...s if, having finished the affairs of his clients, he were leaving to unburden himself of painful labours in the fields of Venafrum or the smiling countryside of Tarentum.
Translation from the eighteenth-century French of FatherSanadon (edition Wetstein & Smith, Amsterdam, MDCC XXXV.)English version by N.F Dans le jardin de mon père les lauriers sont fleuris:Tous les oiseaux du ciel y viennent faire leur nid–La caille, la tourterelle, et la jolie perdrix,Et ma jolie colombe qui chante jour et nuit.MoreLess
—HORACE, Odes, Book III, No. V He knew perfectly what torment his barbarous enemies held destined for him. Nevertheless he pushed gently aside his family that sought to prevent his passing: he made a way through the crowd that tried to delay his departure, and embarked for Carthage with mien as contented a...s if, having finished the affairs of his clients, he were leaving to unburden himself of painful labours in the fields of Venafrum or the smiling countryside of Tarentum.
Translation from the eighteenth-century French of FatherSanadon (edition Wetstein & Smith, Amsterdam, MDCC XXXV.)English version by N.F Dans le jardin de mon père les lauriers sont fleuris:Tous les oiseaux du ciel y viennent faire leur nid–La caille, la tourterelle, et la jolie perdrix,Et ma jolie colombe qui chante jour et nuit.MoreLess
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