Eugene Onegin ( without commentary )

VI

Latin has gone at present out of fashion $ still, to tell you the truth, he had enough knowledge of Latin 4 to make out epigraphs, expatiate on Juvenal, put at the bottom of a letter vale, and he remembered, though not without fault, 8 two lines from the Aeneid. He had no inclination to rummage in the chronological dust of the earth's historiography, 12 but anecdotes of days gone by, from Romulus to our days, he did keep in his memory.