Mvsa Clavda

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Excerpt from Mvsa Clavda: Translations Into Latin Elegiac Verse This little collection of translations into Latin verse has no ambitious aim. No illusion is cherished that a Roman might have mistaken these lines for Roman. The music of Tibullus and Propertius lies buried with them, the delicate harmonies of Ovid can be heard only as set to the wonder of the master's words. Pan is dead, the golden chords of Apollo's lute are broken. The Muses have passed from Helicon, now stripped of the sheltering greenery of woodland they loved so well. A modern voice speaks but faintly in the ancient language: it is but the voice of a Choerilus or a Cordus. The object of this book is to direct attention to the art of verse-making, which is an indispensable part of scholarship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.