"...exemplum, regula, principium, finis esse debet nobis Maro."
— Virgil

January 1, 1970

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Julius Caesar Scaliger, Poetices libri septem (1561), Book V, Ch. 3, as quoted in Philip Hardie's The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid (2014), p. 9