5/02/2012

Lições de Latim

RESIDENT: When it comes to love (…) you’re either an Ovid man or a Virgil man. Omnia vincit amor – that’s Virgil – 'Love wins every time, and we give way to love' – et nos cedamus amori. Housman was an Ovid man - et mihi cedet amor – 'Love gives way to me'.

FLORA: I’m a Virgil man.

RESIDENT: Are you? Well, you meet more people that way.

[Tom Stoppard, In the Native State, 1991]