Vergil in the Mass

Domenico Comparetti, in Vergil in the Middle Ages, relates a fascinating anecdote about the spiritual Nachleben (or wistful longing after same) of Ver

Juvenal emended by shoe maker

This has just cropped up on the Latinteach list and I thought our readers might like to see it. It comes quickly at the end, but ASICS says that their

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An Allusion to Keats?

Another of Mifflin’s classically-themed sonnets is called ‘An Elegy’. I was reminded of Keats due to the following bolded rhyme.Immortal laurel of no

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