Today is the birthday of the poet Vergil, born Publius Vergilius Maro near Mantua, Italy (70 BC).
As we learned in 4 years of Latin:
Latin's a dead language,
as dead as it can be.
First it killed the Romans.
Now it's killing me!
The Phoenix and the Mirror by Avram Davidson is a great take on the medieval legend that Vergil was a great sorcerer.
Awesome poem!
Phoenix and the Mirror, you say?
I'll have a drink for Vergil later this evening for his B.D. And another one for Latin being dead. :buck2: