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Your April 8 review of Rolfe Humphries' translation of The Art of Love was also a description of the translator. The modern Mr. Humphries, my Latin teacher at Woodmere Academy until his departure, used to explain Caesar's military escapades in terms of machine guns, mortars and armored tanks. It was no surprise that Ovid's women be dressed by Dior...
...their common destination. Rome. Even more fascinating than their individual styles and talents, which Author Highet expertly analyzes, is a common historical drama linking the seven together in a way which Author Highet suggests but perhaps never sufficiently emphasizes. The eldest, Catullus, died around 54 B.C., ten years before Caesar was assassinated; the youngest, Juvenal, was born around 60 A.D., six years after Nero came to power. In little more than a century these poets witnessed the death of the republic and the rise and corruption of the empire. Whether lyric or satiric, they were poets of disenchantment ("A bitterness...
...virtually the only battle they ever fought-the war between the sexes. They knew or sensed that their culture was on its long day's journey into night-and suggested mostly pleasure to ease the journey. But they were not without stoic courage, and Catullus could spurn Caesar with an epigram...
...really anxious for your approval, Caesar...
Around the U.S., barbers, bus drivers and editorial writers were saying last week that Egypt's Nasser was getting too big for his boots. In a suitably classical reference, the New York Times demanded: "Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed that he is grown so great?" In characteristically unclassical American, the tabloid New York Daily News asked: "What has this little Hitler ever done to make himself noteworthy other than, in a kiddie-sized pet, dump rusty boats and assorted kitchen stoves into the Suez Canal?" The fact was that no happy solution could be seen emerging...