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Originally Posted by johnr60
Does anyone out there have enough Latin to tell me if Wolfe's quote from Look Homeward Angel: Et ego in Arcadia is a misquote of the more familiar Et in Arcadia ego or is there a literal interpretation of significance?
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Word order isn't such a big deal in Latin, and both variants occur quotably from many sources (as a quick Google should reveal; most relevant is Faulkner's almost concurrent transposition); any coloration may be a matter of slight emphasis (And [even] I am in Arcadia / And [even] in Arcadia am I) enforced by metric stress.
(btw thx getting started on Graves)
(( and you'll be amused by the Russian rendering: И я в Аркадии ))