I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem.
I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.
Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age.
Well, I'm trained as a classicist, so I like to read the Greeks and Romans.
I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.
Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.
I've been obsessed with Romans since I was a child.
[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV.
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
