“Little Aonian books will overcome marble monuments; life is lived by talent – the rest will belong to death.”
marmorea Aonii vincent monumenta libelli:
vivitur ingenio, cetera mortis erunt.
-Appendix Vergiliana, Elegy to Maecenas 1.37-8
Books vs. Sculpture – Take That, Material Culture!
This Appendix Vergiliana is looking a lot better than I remember.
I once knew a grad student who planned on writing a dissertation on the appendix. He did not finish graduate school