But it had been so long since I had seen him! Thirty years at least. I did not expect that. I was quietly reading the first volume of the “Museum, a world history”, by Krzysztof Pomian (Gallimard, 2020) when it appeared in the corner of a page. Impossible not to recognize him: Verres!
Yes, the one on which I sweated blood and water in the Latin version, the one that Cicero describes, in “De Signis”, as a filthy looter, the one he overwhelms with his reproaches during his trial. Verres, in my youth, was the Poulidor of Catiline.
At the time, it was not so much his atrocious larceny that horrified me but rather the nullity of my translations: “on the one hand given that on the other hand, having always been a great soldier, I do not intend to make use of the speech nevertheless, being said…”. We have known better verrines.
The desire to own
Source : Nouvelobs
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