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Akavir delenda est

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O tempora, o mores!

Quo usque tandem abutere, Kamali, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? Quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia?

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[pedicabo intensifies]

I really ought to brush up on my Latin. That shit comes and goes since it's kind of a dead language that no one uses outside of archaic quotes and referencing a certain movie.

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You're an animal.

Hey, that and delenda is all I know of Latin.

Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo

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Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo is the opening line of one of Catullus' poems. See if you can find an English translation; it's hilarious.

I've actually read very little of Ancient Roman literary works. Mostly Aeneid, which my Latin class translated their graduating year. I do however have a collection of letters from Quintus T. Cicero to his brother Marcus, with side-to-side Latin to English translations. The letters detail Quintus' advice on winning an election in the Ancient Roman state. It's a good read actually and most of his advice rings true today.

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Oh, I know, I know. I don't say anything I don't know the meaning of. Used to read up on Pompeii grafitti translations, they were pretty fun. Those and pedicabo kind of give you an insight into Roman society.

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If you're interested in the life of Marcus Cicero and the later years of the Roman Republic in general, you could read his speeches and his letters to Atticus, of course, or his 'published' books (like De Republica), but I recommend a novel called Imperium and its sequels by George Harris for a more relaxed and entertaining ride. It's fantastic historical fiction that takes relatively little artistic liberty and adheres strictly to everything we know to be true about his life, only filling in the gaps with (believable) fiction where necessary.

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I'll have to check those out. My book reccomendation is Swords Against The Senate, by Erik Hildinger. The book goes through all the fun little skirmishes, wars, and political mudslinging that led to the Republic getting all sorts of fucked up, covering most everything before Caesar enters the picture and tries to establish some semblance of order again through civil war and establishing a Triumvirate. The book goes into great detail about the Roman army as well.

Ah, the classics. Few know how to insult so well these days.

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I have other ideas that are considered classics, then again I do enjoy historical fiction, albeit as long as it's accurate in so way shape or form.

I'm currently reading, Sir Thomas Mallory's Le Morte d'Arthur, a modernized re-telling however so it's not in old English. But I also have, Chaucer's Canterybury Tales, and The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle. I do enjoy other literature classics, such as Candide or Optimism by Voltaire, Dante's Inferno by Dante Aligheri, and of course Shakespeare. Now finding a man that enjoys these literature tastes is rather more difficult, or anyone in general.