i'm so glad i'm not paying for this.

[mousapelli]

I hate Cicero.

I wish he would die.

Again.

A lot.

ETA: well, that was four hours of my life i'll never get back. thank heaven i spent it reading about how fantastic Cicero thinks he is instead of engaging in some other pursuit less worthy of the republic.

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[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Oh god. What are you reading? Tell me it's not the Conspiracy debates?

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

Tell me it's not the Conspiracy debates?

ahahaha, if only I could. It's the fourth Catilianarian and i want to poke my eyes out with an oil scraper.

"no no, don't worry about me, i'll just be over here defying death and saving the republic single-handedly, and i'm not even supposed to be giving an opinion but Ceasar's a big fathead, and even if i do die by all the conspirators who now consider me their arch-enemy (did you miss the part where i single-handedly saved the republic?) i will die a happy man because you will remember me forever and ever and ever as the man who single-handedly destroyed the republic. So don't think about me at all."

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

er, that last 'destroyed' should be 'saved'. talk about Freudian slips.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

I wish he would die.

He did. Fairly dramatically, too.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Why, that's an excellent translation of the Fourth Catilinarian!

[stephanometra.livejournal.com]

I used to hate Cicero.

Then I started reading Sallust and Lucan.

Now I miss Cicero and wish he'd come home to Mommy.

My Latin prof is a fucking sadistic bitch.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

*pats* Some of it is really brilliant, and some of it is strigilworthy :D

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

i think it's the excessive hyperbole that's bringing me down.

We did the Pro Archia before this, and that was much better. All about why literature and Greek poetry is useful for Romans which is sort of a question for the ages there. The difference is that Cicero has to spend his time explaining why Archias doesn't appear in the public records as a citizen and never gets a chance to gear up about how great he is. so much more palatable.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

See, I liked Sallust, I appreciated his brevity. For whatever reason, I found him much easier to read than Cicero, or even some of Caesar.

Nobody in my class agrees with me, but what can you do.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

It's a wonder they didn't kill him sooner, they way he goes on.

and he never could manage to be on the winning side, most of the time.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

i'll use it during my test today and see how it turns out.