Arma Virumque Cano, Free Men, Armed and Unafraid Since 19BC

By Ammoland

By John Farnam

Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- “Arma Virumque Cano”

Translates to: “I sing of arms and of a man.”

Book 1, Line 1 from Virgil’s “Aeneid” ( tiny.cc/nm2mrx )

Two decades BC, Roman Poet, Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil), used the above line to reintroduce the Roman world, in poetic form, to “Aeneas,” a wandering adventurer whose descendants, according to legend, founded Roman aristocracy.

Aeneas, first written about (again, in poetic form) by Homer eight-hundred years earlier in “Iliad,” was a familiar literary character to at least the …read more

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