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“Very clever young men, in their pursuit of glory, always need the rein more than the spur; their intellectual exuberance of early years requires pruning more than grafting.”

“Du Bellay’s Roman years, though they gave him cultural maturity, seem to have been a bitter personal disappointment to him. The great Rome of antiquity, he found, was not only in ruins, it was infested by Italians.”

“A thing said walks in immortality
if it has been said well;”
- Isthmian 4

“Destiny in the blood decides all action.”
- Nemea 5

“We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream
is man, no more. But when the brightness comes, and God gives it,
there is a shining of light on men, and their life is sweet.”
- Pythian 8

One final voyage to Greece

Lattimore’s note to Olympian 6:
“The material, what with the double divine paternity and the twofold or threefold allegiance of Agesias, is exceptionally complicated; but the difficulties are met with triumphant, challenging, and almost perverse brilliance.”