Friday, April 07, 2023
To Go Further Is To Go Lower
Ronald Syme, "Spaniards at Tivoli," in his Roman Papers, IV (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), pp. 94-114 (at 105):
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Juvenal might have been away from Rome for several years on military service as an equestrian officer. Not impossible. To go further is to go lower—to lapse into byways frequented by scholiasts and their modern disciples.
