Lynne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Horace, I believe You are correct - apologies Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet. It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire. Book I, epistle xviii, line 84 Virgil also includes a reference in Book 2 - Iam proximus ardet Ucalegon - now next to him Ucalegon blazes ...but Ucalegon was a friend of Priam in the Illiad [Horace] a character that Virgil borrowed for the Aeneid [they were friends & borrowed from each other]