The Legal Style?

D.A. Russell’s An Anthology of Latin Prose includes as its fifth selection a passage from Book 4 of the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium, in which we

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Defending Vergil

It’s difficult to imagine a time when a scholar might feel the need to defend Vergil against the notion that he was derivative, artificial, or less th

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From the Vault: Horace Odes 1.1 (translation)

I was going through some old files I’d forgotten about on some long lost server space that I’d once gotten through my parents’ internet provider and I

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