Det här är en bok som jag aldrig någonsin kommer att läsa. Men ändå är det på något vis fullständigt underbart att den finns! En galenpanna har översatt hela
The Hobbit till latin!
Bokens berömda första mening:
Citera:
in foramine terrae habitabat hobbitus: nec foedum, sordidum madidumque foramen, nec extremis lumbricorum atque odore caenoso impletum, nec etiam foramen aridum, inane, harenosum, in quo nihil erat ad considendum aut edendum aptum; immo foramen-hobbitum, ergo commodum.
I förordet förklarar galenpannan i fråga - Mark Walker heter han - varför han har tagit sig för att göra detta:
Citera:
There is, as anyone who has taken the trouble to study Latin knows, a curious gap in the available reading material. On the one hand are simplified stories for classroom use, on the other the glories of high Latin literature - but remarkably little inbetween. What is there for the intermediate reader, who is tired of the textbook but not quite ready to grapple with the stately poetry of Virgil or the grand rhetoric of Cicero? What for the accomplished reader who wants to escape from Ancient Rome's marbled halls from time to time? What for the reader who just wants to read Latin - the very idea! - for fun?
This is where the Latin Hobbit comes in. It is nothing more or less than a novel - but a novel now in Latin. Which is to say, it is a Latin text whose principal aim is to be read solely for the pleasure of reading, not one to be studied with the aid of copious editorial notes, or laboured over in order to glean hard-won quotations for an essay assignment. Reading for pleasure is a rare experience for Latinists, who, in my opinion, deserve to enjoy themselves as much as anyone else.
Och vem kan gissa vilken vers det här är?
Citera:
frange uitra et catilla!
cultros tunde, furcas flecte!
Bilbo Baggins odit illa -
nunc et cortices incende!
textum seca, sebum calca!
lactem funde cellae terra!
linque in tapeto ossa!
uinum sperge super porta!
has patellas aestu laua;
has contunde magna claua;
si nonnulla sint intacta,
uolue ea e culina!
Bilbo Baggins odit illa!
caue! caue! haec catilla!
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