[Hardy-l] A grammatical question

[Roy Buckle]

Clever Carolyn.  Dead-on!
Whose translation is it?   Can't blame Ovid for the bad English.

I never got my hoped-for copy of the Oxford Dic.Quot.
for a b'day prezzy.
Isn' that what Hardy used?

R.
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[mailto:hardy-l-bounces at coyote.csusm.edu]On Behalf Of carolyn mcgrath
Sent: 11 October 2007 14:24
To: hardy-l at coyote.csusm.edu
Subject: [Hardy-l] A grammatical question


  Courtesy of Google:

  Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book Thirteen

  What are to him the sculptures of the shield,
  Heav'n's planets, Earth, and Ocean's watry field?
  The Pleiads, Hyads; less, and greater Bear,
  Undipp'd in seas; Orion's angry star;
  Two diff'ring cities, grav'd on either hand;
  Would he wear arms he cannot understand?

  Apostrophes abound (though curiously not in 'watry'!)

  best wishes


  Carolyn McGrath


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