est.

Eheu is often translated as "Alas". The problem is most of our Latin is literary or poetic, and the part that isn't is really hard to translate because we don't have any primers on Latin swearing, and/or it's not generally revealed to students until you hit graduate school.

The Golden Ass is love. It's a Roman mythology handbook stitched together by pornography. The main character gets turned into a donkey early on and STILL manages to have sex with at least one batch of eunuchs at one point, unless I'm misremembering that scene. People keep lying around after having sex and saying, "mmm, that reminds me of the myth about..." Strangely enough, it's the only Roman novel that survived to the present day in its entirity, meaning that generations of medieval monks must have copied and recopied it. Probably on the sheet hidden under the sheet of vellum where they were copying out their hymns. "Oh, hello, Father, yes, the illumination work is proceeding, but slowly."

Er, anyway, hello little fluffy tangent! *pats into place*