For Bill Wiles, Rick Newlon, Terry Fox, Tom Skalsky, and Jon Drake, my old pack of college runnin' buddies back when we were learning how to become a Nelsonian "Band of Brothers."
And, for Bob Enrione at CBS, who gives the best "loan" of obscure research books, and supplies the finest period details for the ambience, ever I did see.
An soda Iuone et Pallade fretus
armisona speret magis et frйta iussa capessat,
siqua opens tanti domito consurgere ponto
fama queat?
Or shall he trust rather to the aid of Juno and Pallas
of the ringing armor, and launch forth at the king's
command, if haply, the sea subdued, some renown
could arise from so great a task?
– Argonautica
Book I, 73-76
Valerius Flaccus