_________________clad
__________________ear;

_____________the insult
___________across the
___________________fall,
_________________thought
___________________lighted;
____________the fall and pool
_____________if not;
__________________hill
____________________breeze

_____________________now
______________________winged
_______________________high
_________________________alone
____________________out
_____________________common
___________________sail
___________constellations
___________o'er_____waters
____________the mid zone
_______________________still beset
__________________wait upon
__________________light
________________seen and
_____________________passed
______________________no more of it

Johnson becoming Blake, looking back at Milton.

Moi, becoming Sextus Pompeius Festus,
looking back at P.J. Bailey,
the spasmodics, Victorians.

As a grammarian, Festus was interested in excising words from the Latin language. He mowed the yard. He took words out, the obsolete ones and put them in a book that has now been lost and will probably never be recovered: Priscorum verborum cum exemplis.

It is widely thought that Festus lived in Gaul, specifically Narbo. His work was second hand, existing as a precis of Verrius Flaccus' encyclopedias, which were an attempt to establish a history of Roman custom, written and spoken.

Victorian England, Augustan Rome

Epitome, not as a summary
or representative sample,
but a cutting,
made with minimal care.

So far, I have about 60 epitomes.

epi-temnein

Epic cut short

the rendering of volumes, parceling

1839-1889 (40,000 lines)

verse drama (spasmodics)

Oh!

Rears

From

Oh!
There

The
Round

Pillow
The
Fringe

__age
The oaks,
____bid
To_______a summer

______________When will the clouds
_______________visit me____Oh
______________hand the
_____________light and dark