Odes Book 1 Poem 2.21 … audiet pugnās vitiō parentum rāra iuventūs. audiet: will hear pugnās: battles, fights vitiō: through the fault (of) parentum: ancestors, forebears rāra: scant, thinned, diminished iuventūs: youth … by the fault of his forebears, the diminished youth will hear of the battles. Support the show, buy the book, enjoy the read: Nostoi, the homecomings Homer left untold, reconstructed for the first time in over a 1000 years. Rss Apple Podcaster →