To celebrate the August arrival of Latin I at Truett-McConnell College, here is an easy passage for translation from the Wheelock:
Maecenas et Vergilius me hodie vocant. Quid cogitare debeo? Quid debeo respondere? Si erro, me saepe monent et culpant; si non erro, me laudant. Quid hodie cogitare debeo?
Horace was a poet and satirist of the Augustan Age. He counted among his contemporaties none other than Vergil himself. Maecenas was a wealthy Roman soldier and statesman who used him resources to patronize the arts. He kept his home open for scholars and poets.
