It's those exceptions, oratory and poetry, that give me pause. It's easy to be modest about poetry when you have something else to fall back on, such as a political career. So far as we know, Virgil didn't pursue that. He wrote about power, but he didn't seek it. Of course, he did get influence, wh
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David
Wilson-Okamura writes
Yesterday I was lecturing on these lines, which we all know by heart:
excudent alii spirantia mollius aera
(credo equidem), uiuos ducent de marmore uultus,
orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus
describent radio et surgentia sidera d
Yesterday I was lecturing on these lines, which we all know by heart:
excudent alii spirantia mollius aera
(credo equidem), uiuos ducent de marmore uultus,
orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus
describent radio et surgentia sidera dicunt:
tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento
(hae tibi eru
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O'Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
Greetings to the list.
Why, in Georgics 1.295, is the peasant woman boiling the must?
Thomas's note ad loc. leaves me entirely mystified: "The boiling down
of must was a means of bypassing fermentation." How on earth can
