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Thread #95790 Message #1866804
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
23-Oct-06 - 07:24 PM
Thread Name: Songs Translated Into Latin
Subject: RE: Songs Translated Into Latin
Here is a site with a whole host of songs translated into Latin by one Meredith Minter Dixon. Including for example, Blowing in the Wind and its companion piece, Puff the Magic Dragon - Carmina Popularia
While hunting around to find this I came up with another gem, which isn't immediately relevant, but I thought I'd pass it on here - it's a Gilbert and Sullivan version of Xena, Warrior Princess, by Kevin Wald. Here is a taster:
I am the very model of a heroine barbarian; Through Herculean efforts, I've become humanitarian. I ride throughout the hinterland -- at least that's what they call it in Those sissy towns like Athens (I, myself, am Amphipolitan). I travel with a poet who is perky and parthenian[2] And scribbles her hexameters in Linear Mycenian[3] (And many have attempted, by a host of methods mystical, To tell if our relationship's sororal or sapphistical).