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Excerpting Senior Writers: Erik Fredericksen '12

Fredericksen reflects on his thesis, a translation of a Latin ode.

to bulls tired from the plow

and to the wandering herd.

You will become one of the noble fountains

as I sing of the ilex tree hanging over

the hollow rocks from where

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your waters leap with voices.

Erik P. Fredericksen is a Classics concentrator in Quincy house who just completed a thesis on Horace’s Odes and problems of translation. Next year, Erik plans to continue studying Classics at Oxford.

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