Whee! Latin Midterm today.
Oct. 21st, 2004 01:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
I finished before everybody else. That either means I did well (it seemed easy enough...) or I was too overconfident and did miserably. There is no inbetween.
The last bit was a sight translation (ugh) from Bede's commentaries on the Vulgate. I hate Bede. He's incomprehensible in the best of times. So I'm sitting there, trying desperately to figure out how "pay attention" fits into the sentence when I realize - duh! This isn't part of the Bible! This is Bede explaining the Bible! He's telling the reader, me, to pay attention or to notice!
So then it fell into place and I was able to translate the whole passage. But I still may have been wrong.
The last bit was a sight translation (ugh) from Bede's commentaries on the Vulgate. I hate Bede. He's incomprehensible in the best of times. So I'm sitting there, trying desperately to figure out how "pay attention" fits into the sentence when I realize - duh! This isn't part of the Bible! This is Bede explaining the Bible! He's telling the reader, me, to pay attention or to notice!
So then it fell into place and I was able to translate the whole passage. But I still may have been wrong.
