No Snow/Horace The other day I posted a snippet of Horace that was appropriate to our snowy conditions. Since it’s warmed up and everything has started to melt, I th Continue Reading →
Snow/Horace We’ve been getting some snow here in the Philadelphia area today, so I thought I would post the wintry opening stanzas of Horace Odes 1.9, followed by Continue Reading →
Poetry and Livy’s Preface It is interesting to me that Livy’s preface begins with the first four feet of a dactylic hexameter:Facturusne operae pretium sim…In other words, he Continue Reading →
