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So it turns out that I was only supposed to translate a tiny fraction of that grammar stuff about poetic meter; I just didn’t find out in time, because I do my homework early, and the prof sends out notes about these things late, expecting all of us to put homework off until the last possible minute. Which...is probably accurate for most of the class, but argh.

Moving on, we’re now at the point of translating...epitaphs! Mostly epitaphs for generals and the like, I expect, as you’re not likely to get high-quality engraving that lasts for millennia on a shoe-maker’s tomb. Though we do get some middle-class types here, too; most of the evidence for Invisible Romans, an interesting book about the non-elite Romans of the classical era, comes from such epitaphs.

( Very dead people follow )