All roads may lead to Rome, but hopefully these literarlly clues will lead you to one three syllable word that relates to all three. Can you guess it? Ready, set, go --
1) From Virgil's Aeneid -
Carthage the name; belov'd by Juno more
Than her own Argos, or the Samian shore.
Here stood her chariot; here, if Heav'n were kind,
The seat of awful empire she design'd.
Yet she had heard an ancient rumor fly,
(Long cited by the people of the sky,)
That times to come should see the Trojan race
Her Carthage ruin, and her tow'rs deface;
2) From Frost (Musing's favorite topic starter) -
Was there ever a cause too lost,
Ever a cause that was lost too long,
Or that showed with the lapse of time too vain
For the generous tears of yourth and song?
3) And for a more deeply buried clue, an excerpt from "The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius" -
But I who have seen the nature of the good that it is beautiful, and of the bad that it is ugly, and the nature of him who does wrong, that it is akin to me, not only of the same blood or seed, but that it participates in the same intelligence and the same portion of the divinity, I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor hate him, For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth.
4) And finally, a few of the quoted quips of Mr. Twain -
"The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between the lightning and the lightning-bug,"
"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied."
"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."
Well, what's the commonality?
Bon Chance!
Cynthia
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