Hexameter Verse/Prudentius (Updated) Prudentius, in his Hamartigenia, is not afraid to use a fifth-foot spondee from time to time. Here are the examples I’ve come across so far, all with Continue Reading →
The Cameleopard As a great fan of the ‘liger’ dialogue in Napoleon Dynamite, I had to post this section on the ‘cameleopard’ which I just came across in Pliny the Eld Continue Reading →
"hoc opus, hic labor est" ‘I conclude, therefore, that he excelleth history, not only in furnishing the mind with knowledge, but in setting it forward to that which deserves to Continue Reading →
