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    This author requested in his last wishes that his unfinished epic must not be published because of unsightly errors that needed fixing. A powerful Head of State superceded this request and it went ahead. What is the name of this compilation, whose works are they modelled on, and what common phrase is the author said to have once coined?

    Question #59438. Asked by peasypod. (Sep 18 05 6:21 AM)


    lanfranco

    		Virgil requested that his unfinished "Aeneid" be burned after his death, but Augustus had it published anyway. The poem was, of course, modeled on Homer.

    And I'd best post this quickly, because "tempus fugit."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil

    Sep 18 05, 6:37 AM
    peasypod

    		Nice One Frankie, tempus fugit, that reminds me, I have to get that peach recipe to you. I got distracted whilst rummaging for it..*

    Sep 18 05, 10:13 PM

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