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from school to the First WorldWar,where he became a captain in the Royal WelchFusiliers.His principal calling is poetry,and hisSelected Poems have been published in the PenguinPoets.Apart from a year as Professor of EnglishLiterature at Cairo University in 1926 he has earnedhis living by writing,mostly historical novels whichinclude:I,Claudius;Claudius the God;Sergeant Lambof the Ninth;Count Belisarius;Wife to Mr Milton (allpublished as Penguins);Proceed,Sergeant Lamb;TheGolden Flece;They Hanged My Saintly Billy;andThe Isles of Unwisdom.He wrote his autobiography,Goodbye to All That,in 1929.His two most discussednon-fiction books are The White Goddess,which pre-sents a new view ofthe poetic impulse,and The Naza-rene Gospel Restored(with Joshua Podro),a re-exami-nation of primitive Christianity.He has translatedApuleius,Lucan,and Suetonius for the Penguin clas-sics,and the first modern dictionary of Greek mytho-logy,The Greek Myths.He was elected Professor ofPoetry at Oxford in 1961.  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in the first chapter to Mr A.K.Smith,I.C.S.They are here first printed:  \nPunica centenos durabit poena per annos:Res Romana viro parebit caesariato:  \nCalvus caesarie dominus dominabitur urbi:Omnibus ille viris mulier mas ille puellis:Rex equitabit equo bifidis equus unguibus ibit:Filius imbelli fictus mactaverit ictu.  \nImperium hinc alter ficto patre caesariatoCaesariae crinitus habet,qui marmore RomaeMutabit lateres.Non visis vinciet UrbemCompedibus.Fictae secreto coniugis astuOccidet ut fictus bona filius occupet heres.Tertius hinc sumet ficto patre caesariatoCalvus caesarie regnum cui sanguine limusCommixtus.Victrix penes ilium et victa vicissimRoma erit.Ille instar gladii pulvinar habebit,Filius et fictus regni potietur iniqui.  \nQuartus habet solium ficto patre caesariatoCalvus caesarie invenis,cui Roma ministrae est.Feta veneficiis Urbs impia serviet uni.Quo puer ibat equo vectus calcatus eodemSe iuvenem ferro cecidisse fatetur equinoCaesariatus ad hoc quintus numerabitur 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