I give this novel an A+.

If I wasn't so bored out of my mind, I would have ixnayed that idea.

The children were playing keepie-uppie to amuse themselves.

Horace twists the Homeric strands used by Vergil by a further twist when he in turn plays the Vergilian game and points to a proverse and converse relationship between Agrippa and Meriones in the same way as Vergil had created proverse and converse relationships between Diomedes and Aeneas/Augustus.