EGO LECTOR

Mental marginalia & cerebral effluvia

Ennius on Literary Celebrity


Nemo me lacrimis decoret, nec funera fletu
faxit. Cur? Volito docta per ora virum.

Let no one honor me with their tears or perform my funeral rites with weeping. Why? I flit about through the mouths of learned men.

[Ennius, Fragment, cited in Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations 1.117]





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Lapsed classicist now curiously obsessed with modernity.

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