Excerpt from Juvenal, Persius, Martial, and Catullus: An Experiment in TranslationHaving come, then, to the conclusion that no possible pleasure can be derived from reading a literal prose transla tion however excellent and useful, and that a metrical version of some sort, untrammelled by rhyme (of which there is none in the original), is the best medium for translating these particular Poets, I have chosen a trochaic octosyllabic metre suggested by the hendecasyllabic lines of Martial.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.