Curiosa: Scribbleamus igitur, iuvenes dum sumus!

[nebroadwe]

Coloring in the odd figure in the illustrations of your 1533 Venetian edition of Virgil's collected works (accuratissime castigata, et in pristinam formam restituta, cum acerrime iudicii virorum commentariis) -- well, hey, the princeps poetarum (not to mention his commentators) can get a bit long-winded when he's hip-deep in an epic simile, and doodling keeps the hand busy while the mind grapples with the text.

Coloring so thoroughly that ink bleeds through the paper and obscures the text of not one but several neighboring leaves might, however, be construed as absence of mind, if not outright vandalism.

Drawing a mustache and beard on Dido merely demonstrates your childishness.

Thank goodness you got bored like everyone else and started skimming after book VI of the Aeneid. Or so I judge from a sudden absence of ink blots.

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Dare you to do a ficlet of Hohenheim finding Ed and Al helpfully coloring his alchemy texts. :D

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

But I'm all blo-- hey, wait a minute while I write this down ... :-)

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

[(Anonymous)]

Are you suggesting that the Aeneid is BORING??

Jeez, you room with somebody for 5 years and you think you know them....sheesh. ;-)

Eye-rollingly,
Krizzzz

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Are you suggesting that the Aeneid is BORING??

Only the last six books.

Jeez, you room with somebody for 5 years and you think you know them....sheesh. ;-)

I don't suppose this is a good time to say I've never made it through the Iliad because I find the first page of book 1 unutterably boring? :-)

[(Anonymous)]

Well, Book 1 Page 1 is hardly giving it a CHANCE, don't you think? At least read until man-slaying Hector says farewell to moussaka-cooking Andromache.

-Krizzzz

P.S. Don't tell anyone, but I'm considerably less excited about Aeneid 7-12 than I probably ought to be. The ending, OK, sure, but getting there? Meh.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Well, Book 1 Page 1 is hardly giving it a CHANCE, don't you think? At least read until man-slaying Hector says farewell to moussaka-cooking Andromache.

Maybe I'll do it for Lent along with the Paradiso. Ssnnorgzzz.

P.S. Don't tell anyone, but I'm considerably less excited about Aeneid 7-12 than I probably ought to be. The ending, OK, sure, but getting there? Meh.

Your secret is safe with me. :-)