She had no chance of learning grammar and logic, let alone of reading Horace and Virgil.

And of course, I like to read Virgil in the original.

Why should one read Robert Fagles, or any other middleman, instead of actually reading Virgil?

His house and the chair he died in, reading Virgil, still stand 619 years later.

"Did you ever try to read Virgil in the original?"

Even towards the close of his life, Alcuin forbade his monks to read Virgil.

She went on to delight in reading Virgil in the original Latin, Shakespeare and Milton.

Those afternoons when I read Virgil to you?

Most people go through college and learn to read Virgil and master the mysteries of calculus without ever discovering how their own minds function.

I don't use this to read Caesar or Virgil, or even the more difficult tombstones.