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REWRITING ROME: TOPOGRAPHY, ETYMOLOGY AND HISTORY IN VARRO DE LINGVA LATINA 5 AND PROPERTIUS ELEGIES 4
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 December 2016
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sunt…ista, Varro; nam nos in nostra urbe peregrinantis errantisque tamquam hospites tui libri quasi domum reduxerunt, ut possemus aliquando qui et ubi essemus agnoscere.
(Cic. Acad. 1.3.9)What you say is true, Varro; for we were wandering and straying about, like foreigners in our own city, and your books, as it were, led us back home, so that we could see at last who and where we were.
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