David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Be Wise, Drink the Wine
Be it Latin or poetry, or whatever it was—I was feeling woozy by then. If I couldn’t love what I was reading, I took it, it was better to have never read at all.
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Posts Tagged: cicero
Ancient Advice on Getting Old
When it comes to offering tips for those growing old, apart from sitting on the sofa thinking smugly about all your great achievements, Cicero recommends taking up agriculture. For The Spectator, Richard Ingrams reviews Tom Payne’s The Ancient Art of Growing Old and discusses how Cicero turns out to be “a humourless and self-satisfied bore.”
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