Greek And Latin

Poul Anderson, Harvest The Fire, Chapter 4.

The poet, Jesse Nicol, knows the Odyssey and The Trojan Women. Even if he knows these works only in translation, he must know that they are translated from Greek. He cannot know this without also knowing of Virgil's Aeneid, the great Latin sequel to the Homeric epics.

If this much is known, then Nicol or other students of literature will have encountered at least a few words of Latin, e.g.:

Arma virumque cano;
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.

So I find it difficult to accept that Latin is "...forgotten by all but the great database." (See Venator.)