Word: aeneid
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...thousand years ago Virgil was born in Italy. He is remembered today by college board markers, by pedants who love the sonorous opening of the Aeneid, and by a cynical English playwright. While he lived he was the spokesman of Rome and the foremost poet of the world. Long after Virgil's death, John Bartlett in that hall of literary fame called Familiar Quotations remembered his name in three footnotes...
...Columbia freshman had to know Greek grammar and composition; four books of the Anabasis; three of the Iliad; Latin grammar and composition; seven books of Caesar's Commentaries; six books of the Aeneid and six orations of Cicero. In history, English, geography and mathematics the tests were equally severe. "Acute paralysis" would afflict modern youths faced with such tests, in Dr. Butler's opinion. But the same condition would probably have afflicted the youth of 1879 if there had not been unbroken centuries of the so-called "humanities" drilled into their ancestors. It is another instance of adaptability...
...Sixth Book of the Aeneid", Mr. Peterkin, Sever...
...Fourth Book of the Aeneid", Mr. Peterkin. Sever...
...Fourth Book of the Aeneid", Mr. Peterkin; Sever...