"Tell them in Lacedaimon, passerby,
That here obeying their commands, we lie."
Simonides wrote that famous epigram for the defenders of the pass at Thermopylae, and in his old age he was respectfully addressed as "Master of Memory." Now that he is in charge of defending Western Civ from the barbarians, Professor Mezey is the second distinguished poet to receive that title.
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