Lucy Vickery

Spectator competition winners: patchwork poetry

The Roman poet and teacher Decimus Magnus Ausonius, whose 131-line cento was composed of lines from Virgil’s Aeneid, Georgics and Eclogue 
issue 05 September 2020
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