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There's obvious truth to the idea that physical fitness increases mental alertness. But as Ovid, a Latin poet (whose thousand choicest verses my new-found energy has allowed me the chance to read), points out, "Aliudque cupido, mens aliud suadet. Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor" ("I desire one thing; reason persuades me of something else. I see the better way to go and approve of it, but I follow the worse path...
...such knowledge, e.g., "What color were Caesar's eyes?"* For a coming issue, Warsley plans a reader-requested translation of one of Elvis Presley's screaming hits, in which the key line, "You ain't nothin' but a hound dog," would come out "Tu nihil aliud nisi canis venaticus...
Fama malum, qua non aliud velocius ullum...
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