Scribblers, Sculptors, and Scribes_A Companion to Wheelock's Latin and Other Introductory Textbooks by Richard A. Lafleur

Author:Richard A. Lafleur [Lafleur, Richard A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Reference
ISBN: 9780061991356
Google: GdWpuCrUJAQC
Amazon: 0061259187
Goodreads: 8081055
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2010-04-27T00:00:00+00:00

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A Hero and…the Laundry Guys

…]RMA VIRVMQVE CANO TROIA QVI PRIMVS AB ORIS

[A]rma virumque can Tria<e> qu prmus ab rs.

CIL 4.4832: Lines from poetry, especially Vergil, appear frequently among the graffiti at Pompeii—see the notes to “Pansa for Aedile” in Capvt XXIV; the person who scribbled this opening line from Book One of Vergil’s Aeneid on a wall near the entrance of a house (a schoolboy perhaps, as it’s written at a child’s height) misspelled Triae—hmm, should we drop his grade to “A–”?

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