Okay, I lied, I'm not going to stop posting Latin. Nice thought, but it's not Christmas. I was bored, so I decided to translate "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It's one of my favorite poems, because when I read it aloud, I get to do it in this cool booming voice, like cannon thundering. It was also difficult to translate, because of the whole rhyming thing. There's actually a few points where I just gave up and altered the rhyming scheme to make it fit. Still, I think it came out well.
Semileuga, semileuga,
Semilleuga prorsus,
Cuncti in vallem Mortis
Equitabant sescentos.
'Progredimini, Vigilem Expeditum!'
Dicit 'Inruite cannones versus':
In vallem Mortis
Equitabant sescentos.
'Progredimini, Vigilem Expeditum!'
Esset illlic virem dejectum?
Ne licet milites scibant quidem
Quidam peccaverant:
Nonfacere contradictionem eorum,
Nonargumentari quapropter eorum,
Sicut facessere morique eorum:
In vallem Mortis
Sescentos equitabant.
Cannones ad dextrum eorum,
Cannones ad sinistrum eorum,
Cannones prae eorum
Effundebant et detonanbant;
Oppugnabantur cum telis et lignis,
Animose equitabant et satis,
In buccam Mortis,
In orem Inferni
Sescentos equitabant.
Fulgebant gladios omnes calvatos,
Fulgebant quum torquebant in aeribus
Confodiens ibi tormentas,
Inruens legionem quum
Demirabatur terra omnis:
In nube-tormentaria Mergebuntur
Prorsus agminem irrumpebant per;
Cosacus et Russus
Ab ictu-gladii collabefactabantur
Frangebantur et difringebantur.
Tunc equitabant retro, sed non
Nonsescentos.
Cannones ad dextrum eorum,
Cannones ad sinistrum eorum,
Cannones post eorum
Effundebant et detonanbant;
Oppugnabantur cum telis et lignis,
Dum obibant equus et heros,
Ei pugnaverant melius
Venebant per buccam Mortis,
Referebant ab ore Inferni,
Omnis permanebant eorum,
Sescentos permanebant.
Posset vanescetur quando eorum glorias?
O faciebatur ferox excursus!
Demirabatur terra omnis.
Honora faciebatur excursus!
Honora Vigil Expeditus,
Sescentus magnificus!
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