PALINURUS' BOX - the speculative approach

The account (as told by Vergil) is full of difficulties, ‘Te Palinure petens,tibi somnia tristia portans insonti' — ‘Looking for you, Palinurus, bringing you sad visions, guiltless though you are.’ But was Palinurus guiltless ?

Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave,  p. 132 (1944)

 

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