Monday, September 20, 2021
Limericks on the Aeneid
John N. Hough, "Facetiae," Classical Outlook 58.3 (March-April 1981) 96:
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AENEID SIXJohn N. Hough, "Facetiae," Classical Outlook 58.4 (May-June 1981) 127:
Our hero, in need of new tricks,
Went to Hell by crossing the Styx;
But Dido was mad,
So he talked to his dad,
And that is the plot of Book Six.
OPUS MAIUS
Books Seven to Twelve don't excite
Us as much as they rightfully might.
We just don't enjoy them
And tend to employ them
For exams and for reading at sight.
AENEID FOUR
In Carthage our love-struck Aeneas,
Infatuate dullard as he was,
Still wouldn't play Fido
To subdolous Dido
Who didn't consider him pius.
AENEID FIVE
Why bother with funeral games
Or the burning of ships by the dames,
When surely one function,
Without any compunction,
Is to drag in some old Roman names?
