OVID

I was surprised that we were reading Ovid in English class. In high school that was usually reserved for only Latin class. Prior to coming to the academy I took Latin for 5 years, so seeing some Latin poetry brought back fond memories of conjugating verbs and translating sentences. I actually didn't need the English to get the gist of what Ovid was talking about. Of course I am not an expert at Latin so I couldn't translate nearly as well the way the author did. Plus its been a while since I've read Latin so I was a little rusty on vocab (needed a handy Latin to English Dictionary). For example the author translated "Dum facit ingenium" into "While she inspires me" whereas I would have said "While she makes my talent" and when the author translated "petite hinc praecepta" into "seek precepts here" I would have said "seek rules from this place". Its basically the same thing except put better into English. Latin is the reason I use the passive voice a lot in my writing. Its hard to distinguish the two tenses for me because it is perfectly fine to write in the passive voice in Latin. But I enjoyed the passages and hope to see some more Ovid or any other famous Roman author.