"Jam prope desertos cineres et sancta Maronis nomina qui coleret pauper et unus erat. Silius optatae succurrere censuit umbrae, et vates vatem non minor ipse colit."
— Silius Italicus

January 1, 1970

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To honour the ashes, now wellnigh abandoned, and the sacred name of Maro was there but one, and he was poor. Silius resolved to rescue the regretted dead: and Silius—no less himself a poet—honours the bard. — Martial, equalling Silius to Virgil, in Epigrams, 11.49