WELOME TO DOMUS AUGUSTULUS
 Salvete cives Romae! Transcendant Greetings To All Who Pass This Way. I Am Here To Serve Rome. And To See Rome Rise To Greater Glory! With so many teachers and with so many examples has antiquity furnished us that no age can be thought more fortunate in the chance of its birth than our own age for whose instruction men of earlier generations have earnestly laboured- Quintilian (AD 35-95)
A relative of mine is fond of saying that the beginning of wisdom is the admission that one is a fool. And, indeed, the path may both begin and end with this acknowledgement. Along the way, however, the journey must surely be characterized by an honest search for Truth. If this is your quest, then let us travel together...
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THE FALL OF ROME
The piers are pummelled by the waves;
In a lonely field the rain
Lashes an abandoned train;
Outlaws fill the mountain caves.
Fantastic grow the evening gowns;
 Agents of the Fisc pursue
Absconding tax-defaulters through
The sewers of provincial towns.
Private rites of magic send
The temple prostitutes to sleep;
All the literati keep
An imaginary friend.
Cerebrotonic Cato may
Extol the Ancient Disciplines,
But the muscle-bound Marines
Mutiny for food and pay.
Caesar's double-bed is warm
As an unimportant clerk
Writes I DO NOT LIKE MY WORK
On a pink official form.
Unendowed with wealth or pity,
Little birds with scarlet legs,
Sitting on their speckled eggs,
Eye each flu-infected city.
Altogether elsewhere, vast
Herds of reindeer move across
Miles and miles of golden moss,
Silently and very fast.
by W. H. Auden
See how quickly death comes upon the world, and how many people the violence of war has killed.  Some lay as food for dogs; others were killed by the flames that destroyed their homes. In the villages and country houses, in the fields and in the countryside, on every road- death, sorrow, slaughter, and fires.
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