[lbo-talk] Looking for a sailing poem

[mjs at smithbowen.net]

> Yes, yes. Epics are poetry. Thought of that right after I hit send.
> Agreed about Odyssey. And the bit from Virgil is lovely. I actually
> flashed on translating that passage a million years ago.

A long-dormant brain cell just fired and reminded me of
the Piscatorial Eclogues of the amiable Jacopo Sannazaro.
Oddly, they don't seem to be online anywhere that I can
find, though there are snippets to be had of a rather
pedestrian prose translation.