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  1. 22 hours ago

    Accessible and clever as always, unpacks the meaning of the name 'Ultima Thule', the first surviving use of which occurs in Virgil’s Georgics! (fab image by artist Adrian Mann)

  2. 5 Jul 2014

    is sure, were Vergil to see him pruning trees, he'd forbid him from ever teaching, & maybe reading, his again!

  3. 6 Apr 2016

    broadcast on has helped inspire a term paper! Agricultural inspiration and poetic cultivation in Virgil's !

  4. 4 Sep 2012
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    My quote is from Peter Fallon's translation of The of Virgil.

  5. 19 Jun 2013

    I have Mynors, Thomas, Williams - but my favourite commentary on the has come to be TEPage's. I think I prefer him for Horace, too

  6. 19 Jan 2017

    One of the views from my office window .Light in Devon is amazing today. Rather special when combined with reading .

  7. 16 Nov 2018

    & I setting up the exhibition ready for next week. You’ll be able to see the film, along with sections of the , electron microscopic images of the soil and info about the project, all next week 9.30-4

  8. 26 May 2017

    As 's new album drops, next week we'll be looking back at the impact of his now undisputed classic debut - "Bucolics". 🔥🎧

  9. 11 Oct 2013

    "Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus, /Singulas dum capti circum vectamur amore -- " too much attention to trivia sumtimz

  10. 13 May 2017
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    Back in the day you had to learn stuff like hell Illi inter se se magna vi brachia tollunt

  11. 20 Nov 2017

    Contemplating 's "haudquaquam ob meritum poenas, ni fata resistant," 4.455. Aristaeus is not deserving of such punishments (bees dying), and Orpheus would exact greater revenge if only the fates would allow him to do so?

  12. 15 Jun 2013

    Rerum cognoscere causas - Latin for "to know the causes of things"

  13. 20 Apr 2018
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    favorite line by far

  14. 23 Nov 2018

    ' biography of , as known via Donatus, tells in $22 how Vergil said that he shaped a few verses of the each day, like a she-bear licking her cubs into shape: carmen se more ursae parere dicens et lambendo demum effingere.

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  15. 24 Apr 2018

    TFW one of your students, a HS Italian teacher who's working toward a cross-endorsement in Latin, wins a scholarship to help her cover the tuition of your summer Virgil class ! Win-Win!

  16. 26 Jan 2017

    When you're supposed to be writing, but you just can't stop reading the ...

  17. 5 Jun 2017
  18. 9 Mar 2017

    Her book "The Land" is an attempt at a modern version of Virgil's . ( tweets quotes & photos.)

  19. 15 Oct 2018

    born this day* 70BC. Most famous work relates travels of after fall of to Italy where he became ancestor of . What appeals to me, though, is , poem on cultivation of soil, cattle& ! *How they know exact date?

  20. 12 Oct 2017

    ‘Let’s start as we mean to go on!’ Nice opening to tour.

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