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"Apparently, [Vergil] spent his life writing books in a room by himself. Biographical tradition depicts him as shy, sickly, and gay. However, those biographers may simply have been speculating based on the fact that he wrote poetry."

CATULLUS INVENTOR OF HTE GIRLFRIEND

"Romans shared our basic frivolity: there was no smut too low for them, and no complaint too trivial. They loved sarcasm, gossip, and actors. In fact, by the time of the Silver Age, Romans are not just Americans, but actually New Yorkers."

this is true i was there

“Many of the writers we will meet in the coming pages learned these dead languages at ages as young as five. Now they are dead themselves. Was it worth it? We may never know.”

it’s giving philomena cunk

“Paradise Lost is a work of acknowledged genius. It is also about as much fun as being trapped in a freezer.”

Laughed out loud at the orthodontist.

“This line is by far the most famous in the book, because it is as far as most people get.”

Not even technically on page 1. I’m on page xi, the first page of the introduction and I’m already giggling to myself