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Post by callaina on Jul 17, 2023 2:11:22 GMT
matres atque viri defunctaque corpora vita magnanimum heroum, pueri innuptaeque puellae, impositique rogis iuvenes ante ora parentum
You've got to love Vergil's self-plagiarism here. I didn't realize these two passages were identical until doing research on Proba's Vergilian cento today.
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Post by Bitmap on Jul 17, 2023 7:23:08 GMT
Plagiarism was considered a quality rather than a vice back in the day. The negative connotation of intellectual theft is fairly recent.
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