By this I mean, a book you had to brace yourself to read, and you feel proud for having read. Did you enjoy the process of reading it?

  • Xariphon@kbin.social
    8·
    10 months ago

    Julius Caesar’s Commentarii De Bello Gallico in Latin. And… yes I did enjoy it. There are some points where translation just cannot capture Caesar’s wit. I wish I still knew enough Latin to read it again.

    (Why yes I am a huge fucking nerd, how could you tell?)

    • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      For anyone wondering what kind of wit this might be, an example is the opening line:

      Gail est divisa tres partes (“Gaul is divided into three parts”)

      With divisa (‘divided’) dividing the phrase exactly.