Cicero’s Prose Is Fucking Gorgeous Actually
#ds winona #a r m s #torndirru #ca nt #lizblackx #same luke #coach bag #yew trees #degasian #rng drops
Link #except… #it’s not #these jokes are so tiring to me #cicero and vergil both are masters of using their language #the problem with classics #translation is not reading #cicero’s prose is fucking gorgeous actually #and vergil isn’t opaque #doesn’t mean it’s opaque #latin isn’t encoded english #it’s latin #the opacity comes from the insistence of the contrary