A Beginning...

Well, 3 AM seems like a fitting time to get the inaugural blog post out of the way so that things don't look quite so empty.  I wouldn't bother reading the rest of this, though - it's pretty much just getting down something to fill the space for the moment.  For the non-Latinists, the title of the blog is from Vergil's first Eclogue (l. 5), and means 'relaxed in the shade' - more or less the way I live my life.  Anyway, future installments will likely bring baseball discussion coupled with discussion of the classical world; I have it in mind to post a running translation of some Latin work with my thoughts below.  I still have to figure out what I want to translate, though - the Aeneid would be the simplest and certainly interesting, but it's been done so many times.  A.J. Woodman has recently published translations of Tacitus and Sallust, which makes me a trifle hesitant to work on them as well.  Livy and Caesar are possibilities, as are selected letters of Cicero; it might perhaps be fitting, though, to begin with the Eclogues.  Stay tuned in the New Year (I'm unlikely to have time before then) to see if I actually follow through...