"The chastest poet and royalest that to the memory of man is known."
— Virgil

January 1, 1970

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Francis Bacon, as quoted in Latin Poetry: Lectures Delivered in 1893 on the Percy Turnbull Memorial Foundation in the Johns Hopkins University (1895) by Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, p. 128