Читать книгу Евгений Онегин / Eugene Onegin - Александр Сергеевич Пушкин, Александр Пушкин, Pushkin Aleksandr - Страница 12

Latin today is not high value,

But if to be sincere and just,

He knew in Latin a good many:

The sense of epigraphs could grasp.

With Juvenal he was best friend,

Put vale[2] in the letters end.

From Eneida in his mind

At least two verses he could find.

He didn’t have any inclination

To dig in prehistoric dust,

In detail analyze the past,

But funny stories of the ancient

From Romulo to recent day

He didn’t forget and did retain.