Monday, September 20, 2021

 

Limericks on the Aeneid

John N. Hough, "Facetiae," Classical Outlook 58.3 (March-April 1981) 96:
AENEID SIX

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.
John N. Hough, "Facetiae," Classical Outlook 58.4 (May-June 1981) 127:
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?



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