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#except…
#it’s not
#these jokes are so tiring to me
#cicero and vergil both are masters of using their language
#the problem with classics
#translation is not reading
#cicero’s prose is fucking gorgeous actually
#and vergil isn’t opaque
#doesn’t mean it’s opaque
#latin isn’t encoded english
#it’s latin
#the opacity comes from the insistence of the contrary
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