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I finished reading Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian about a month or two ago and absolutely loved it, and she takes some of her section headings from this poem. It's really interesting to see the Google translation version, and I love W. S. Merwin's version. Thank you so much for sharing!

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Ah Memoirs of Hadrian is high on my to read list, thank you for mentioning it! I've heard very good things.

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