Word: aeneid
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...Sheldonian Theatre to receive his degree. Public Orator T. F. Higham, in stately Latin (Truman was furnished a pony in advance), praised the ex-President for the Berlin airlift, the North Atlantic Treaty, "the initiative he took in defending Korea." Higham drew academic giggles with a parody on the Aeneid that recalled Truman's 1948 upset victory over Dewey: "Heu vatum igname mentes! Quid vota repulsum, quid promissa iuvant? Tua quid praesagia, Gallup?" (Carefree translation: The seers saw not your defeat, poor soul-vain prayers, vain promises, vain Gallup poll!) Lauding his modesty, Higham quoted Truman's supposed...
Results: Destruction of Troy. However, the Trojans got their revenge: Aeneas, with the help of Aphrodite, his mother, escaped from falling Troy with his father, the blind Anchises, on his back. He sailed to Italy, and there, according to Virgil's Aeneid, founded the city of Rome, which in turn conquered Greece...
...Metamorphoses is a glowing exception. A skillful poet himself (Forbid Thy Ravens, The Wind of Time), Humphries, 60, soaked up a love of Latin from his teacher father, who once played baseball for the New York Giants. Four years ago, when his translation of Virgil's Aeneid appeared, critics hailed it as the best since Dryden's. This is only the second time in the last hundred years that the Metamorphoses has been done in English verse, and there has not been one as readable as the Humphries version since the 18th century edition, for which Pope, Addison...
...Aeneid...
...critique of Shelley or who is just back from a look at the tribal habits of the Ubangi. Sometimes, the Third goes out and beats the bushes itself, as when it recently persuaded Oxford's C. Day Lewis to make a new translation of the Aeneid for a broadcast series...