What is the best translations in English for Virgil’s The Eclogues

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2016-08-31 18:45:27 Post No. 8458045
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Anonymous 2016-08-31 18:45:27 Post No. 8458045 [Report]

What is the best translations in English for Virgil’s The Eclogues and The Georgics?

I would actually want a Portuguese translation, but there does not seem to be a good one in Brazil, so I will try my luck with English (I can’t read Latin, sadly).

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>>8458045

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Anonymous 2016-09-01 00:17:31 Post No.8459212
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Anonymous 2016-09-01 00:25:34 Post No.8459238
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Anonymous 2016-09-01 00:25:34 Post No.8459238 [Report]

>>8458045
fagles

Anonymous 2016-09-01 00:26:15 Post No.8459242
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Anonymous 2016-09-01 00:26:15 Post No.8459242 [Report]

>>8459238
Rude.

Anonymous 2016-09-01 00:28:07 Post No.8459248
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Anonymous 2016-09-01 00:33:22 Post No.8459263
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Anonymous 2016-09-01 00:33:22 Post No.8459263 [Report]

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There is none, it's sublime poetry and it's not translatable. The translations into verse are seriously doggerel next to the original. The only translator of Vergil I know worth reading is Dryden, and he only translated the Aeneid.

I'm not trying to be flippant or rude, but great poetry is not translatable, and great poetry in a in a language as different from English as Latin is seriously not translatable.

Anonymous 2016-09-01 01:20:10 Post No.8459458
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>>8458045

David Ferry

Anonymous 2016-09-01 04:30:59 Post No.8460091
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Anonymous 2016-09-01 04:30:59 Post No.8460091 [Report]

>>8459263

How long it took you to learn enough Latin to read Virgil in the original?

And what's your native language?

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