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Posted on 07.25.10 by Mary Lou Seymour
“‘Arma virumque cano …’ are the opening words, give or take, of Virgil’s Aeneid, a ten thousand line epic poem written around 19 A.D., about the guy, a Trojan famously defeated by the Greeks, named Aeneas, who refugeed out to found the city that would someday be Rome. The words mean ‘Of arms and the man I sing …’” (07/25/10) Link: http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2010/tle580-20100725-02.html Filed under: 2AM Commentary and LAND Commentary and RRND Commentary and Twitter-Worthy | Report Bad Link Bookmark this post in Furl or Del.icio.us | |






