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Tell me, O Goddess of song, of the clever man, ...
• Odissia I, 1
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Virum mihi, Camena, insece versutum, ...

— Livius Andronicus

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Virum mihi, Camena, insece versutum, ..." in the context of "Tell me, O Goddess of song, of the clever man, ...
• Odissia I, 1" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "Livius Andronicus" (Quotes: E. H. Warmington, Remains of Old Latin, Vol. 2, LCL 314 (1936), pp. 1–45 Norbert Guterman, A Book of Latin Quotations (1966), pp. 2–5) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 19, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app
Livius Andronicus

About Livius Andronicus

Lucius Livius Andronicus (Greek: Λούκιος Λίβιος Ανδρόνικος; c. 284 – c. 204 BC) was a Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet of the Old Latin period of the Roman Republic.