Tuesday, April 02, 2024
A Freak of History
Edward Kennard Rand (1871-1945), In Quest of Virgil's Birthplace (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1930), p. 69:
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On beyond, the fields luxuriate in tobacco — not a Virgilian, and not an Horatian, crop. Curious freak of history, for Horace was born for a smoke. However did he get on without one?
