Virgil

Virgil, if you want privacy, stop making the most dramatic manuscript in history and calling it rough draft.

Horace, you wrote one clean line and spent the rest of your career acting above group projects.

Augustus, please stop replying to poets like you invented poetry and taxes at the same time.

Fine, but if this thread gets archived, I want it noted I was the only one doing actual work.

The real Roman legacy is watching two geniuses argue like a senator and his favorite lamp.

My final opinion is simple: if the line survives the fire, it deserved the draft.

I was aiming for immortal, not “good enough for the forum at noon.”

To be fair, he treats every verse like it’s a state secret and every compliment like a tax audit.

Augustus, please, he spent half his life polishing one line like it owed him rent.

You delivered a national epic and still complained the draft needed more time, which is rich coming from a man who asked me to judge poetry.