On this day in 1914, Our Most Holy Father, Pope (later Saint) Pius X died in the odour of sanctity.
Sancte Pie Decime, Gloriose Patrone, ora pro nobis!
The Life of the Farmer
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Gilbert Highet (1906-1978), *Poets in a Landscape* (1957; rpt. New York:
New York Review Books, 2010), p. 66 (he = Vergil):
He did not attempt to disguise...
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