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Prologue to Dipsychus by Arthur Hugh Clough (1819 - 1861)

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Warning, this piece of prose contains a couple of phrases of LATIN :shock: proceed with caution. :twisted:
Clough wrote Dipsychus, a rather amorphous satire, at Venice in 1850, which remained unfinished. (the poem, not the city)
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‘I hope it is in good plain verse,’ said my uncle,—‘none of your hurry-scurry anapæsts, as you call them, in lines which sober people read for plain heroics. Nothing is more disagreeable than to say a line over two, or, it may be, three or four times, and at last not be sure that there are not three or four ways of reading, each as good and as much intended as another. Simplex duntaxat et unum. But you young people think Horace and your uncles old fools.’

‘Certainly, my dear sir,’ said I; ‘that is, I mean, Horace and my uncle are perfectly right. Still, there is an instructed ear and an uninstructed. A rude taste for identical recurrences would exact sing-song from “Paradise Lost,” and grumble because “Il Penseroso” doesn’t run like a nursery rhyme.’ ‘Well, well,’ said my uncle, ‘sunt certi denique fines, no doubt. So commence, my young Piso, while Aristarchus is tolerably wakeful, and do not waste by your logic the fund you will want for your poetry.’
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Thank you Kevin. :thumbs:
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Interested in reading an Ancient Indian treatise?
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I'd love to read the "poem" but and the latin is no problem for me but I am not sure how to pronounce dipsychus and cannot find any assistance in any of my pronunciation dictionarys

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Hello!

Here is my contribution!

https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/dipsychus_clough_sp_128kb.mp3 1:33.

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jenno wrote: November 12th, 2024, 2:31 pm I'd love to read the "poem" but and the latin is no problem for me but I am not sure how to pronounce dipsychus and cannot find any assistance in any of my pronunciation dictionarys

Jennifer
I was torn between Dye sigh kuss and Dip sigh kuss. But after some consulation, I arrived at the latter being correct.

However, I do not rule out being mistaken!

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Thank you dc, ShrimpPhish, Robert and Bruce. :thumbs:
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jenno wrote: November 12th, 2024, 2:31 pm I'd love to read the "poem" but and the latin is no problem for me but I am not sure how to pronounce dipsychus and cannot find any assistance in any of my pronunciation dictionarys

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I found this pronunciation guide. https://www.howtopronounce.com/dipsychus :wink:
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Interesting selection

https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/dipsychus_clough_lcw_128kb.mp3 1:40

This was my pronunciation guide, closer to the Greek . . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Xi5QsxfXE

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Thank you Larry. :thumbs:
...and thanks for the pronunciation link. :D
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Hi, here's my contribution,

length: 1:48

https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/dipsychus_clough_pr_128kb.mp3

Thanks!
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