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Rolfe Humphries was the Hemingway of the Amherst College I attended, the writer and football player, the man who wrote and did. He taught my freshman Humanities section, including his own translation of the Aeneid, where he made impersonal critiques: "The translator has here taken liberties..." I recall his liberties on "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentis..." (I fear the Greeks and [their] bearing gifts) RH has it, "I fear the Greeks, even when bearing gifts."(33) Laocoön says this, summing his warni...