Today’s NYT, in an article on a new translation of The Aeneid, manages to insert a political statement in the fifth graf:

“To begin with, it’s a cautionary tale,” Mr. Fagles said. “About the terrible ills that attend empire — its war-making capacity, the loss of blood and treasure both. But it’s all done in the name of the rule of law, which you’d have a hard time ascribing to what we’re doing in the Middle East today.

So I guess we should put Virgil on this list.