On Vergil's Brilliance

How the Mantuan Poet took literary lead and turned it into gold.

Roman literature is a more interesting topic of conversation than the layman understands. The Latin language is flawed in a number of ways that make communication confusing at times: there’s no definite article, point 2 and point 3. The Romans knew this themselves: we see a relaxation of formal grammar rules in Cicero’s private letters,¹ and Marcus Aurel…