Why Catullus continues to seduce us
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Why Catullus continues to seduce us
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#6I think when I was around 12-13 or so, a new Latin teacher (fairly young - not long out of university) had our class reading Catullus.
I'm sure you can imagine the reaction of a roomful of teenage boys reading Latin poetry that iirc involved quite a lot of masturbation...
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#9Ōdī et amō. Quārē id faciam fortasse requīris.
Nesciŏ, sed fierī sentiō et excrucior.
I hate and I love. Why I should do this, perhaps you may ask... I know not, but I feel it done to me, and I am wracked.
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I feel like I've started to see lots of weirdly anodyne comments like this on HN recently, with a kind of pointless summary of all or part of the article. Has this always happened and my LLM spider-sense is tingling too much, or are they written by real people whose purpose I don't get?