{"id":86,"date":"2006-01-16T23:11:50","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T05:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.2\/~curculio\/?p=86"},"modified":"2013-09-01T17:50:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T22:50:23","slug":"new-feature-ancient-text-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"New Feature: Ancient Text of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming up shortly, an English translation of the Younger Pliny on the murder of Larcius Macedo (<em>Epistle<\/em> 3.14). This is a private letter, but no doubt polished up, since Pliny published it himself in his own lifetime. I have tried to translate it fairly closely. For instance, like other Latin authors, Pliny makes much use of the historical present for vividness, and I have translated these as presents whenever possible.<\/p>\n<p>Questions, comments, and objections will be most welcome. These may be on the substance of the letter or the obscurities and infelicities in my translation.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to post a similar text once a week, starting with more letters of Pliny. These will be posted on Sunday afternoons whenever possible, though this one is obviously rather late. I will also be posting these readings on my non-classical site for non-specialists, since I am curious to see how the comments from the two different sets of readers will differ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming up shortly, an English translation of the Younger Pliny on the murder of Larcius Macedo (Epistle 3.14). This is a private letter, but no doubt polished up, since Pliny published it himself in his own lifetime. I have tried &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=86\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,44],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-latin-literature","tag-pliny2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}