Tony Harrison - Cla**ics Society lyrics

The grace of Tullies eloquence doth excell any Englishmans tongue ... my barbarous stile ... The tongue our leaders use to cast their spell was once denounced as " rude " , " gross " , " base " and " vile " . How fortunate we are who've come so far! We boys can take old Hansards and translate the British Empire into SPQR but nothing demotic or too up-to-date, and not the English that I speak at home, not Hansard standards, and if Antoninus spoke like delinquent Latin back in Rome he'd probably get gamma double minus. And so the lad who gets the alphas works the hardest in his cla** at his translation and finds good Ciceronian for Burke's: a dreadful schism in the British nation.