Word: vergil
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...South Pacific, he says: "For us who were there, or whose friends were there, Guadalcanal is not a name but an emotion." Sailor-Scholar Morison, who rode eleven ships and won seven battle stars and the Legion of Merit with combat clasp while getting the story, can say with Vergil's Aeneas...
Putting His Foot Down. In Carthage, S.Dak., when the city auditor sent out notices for dog licenses addressed to the dogs, Vergil Herron followed suit, sent back a check for the license signed with the paw print...
Encolpius offends Priapus. god of fertility and lust, and Priapus retaliates by making the buffoon impotent. The anguished lover delivers a severe lecture to his disabled member, but to no effect. Petronius borrows some lines from Vergil to describe the disaster...
...name of pius Aeneas calls to mind that of the immortal poet (70-19 B.C.) of whom it was written: "To be a Christian in Vergil's day was like being a Communist today." Ah, well, perhaps it is the wave of the future...
...were sacred and profane works never, or rarely, exhibited. Items: a 9th century copy of Terence's comedies, with illustrations showing actors in the authentic costumes of ancient Rome; Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II's 13th century manual on falconry; an illustrated sth century copy of Vergil. He also saw many Bibles -but none that surpasses in beauty the work commissioned by Federigo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino (1444-82), and one of the keenest bibliophiles of the" Renaissance...