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masterbaiting · 1 year

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ttoi mutuals i neeed your thoughts. ollie definitely took some classics classes at uni because 1. i say so 2. oxbridge but do you think he took latin and then had the drive to translate some of the salacious bits of catullus himself. my answer is that he would do this because of the thrill of ancient roman sex but fail his latin classes.

#i need you to agree with me because none of the translations i can find published before like the mid to late nineties are obscene and liter #literal enough #for the fic. specifically that fucking line in 56 'pro telo rigida mea cecidi' which i NEVER see translated super literally #ik its like. not ooc necessarily but not really hinted at in canon to make him care about ancient rome but consider: i need this and #the parallels. the parallellllls.#he;s forgotten all his latin knowledge except for the catullus by the time the show starts btw #i spent hours in the library looking at translations today BSJKDFBS on the first day of semester #ttoiposting

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