Siro's

Kevin Connolly, who plays Eric "E" Murphy on "Entourage," and Kevin Dillon, who portrays Johnny "Drama" Chase, are among the investors in Siro's in Saratoga Springs.

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"Siro's" flaw, if you must find one, is its leisurely pace-but you hardly notice because the author is such a skillful stage manager.

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Quintilius Varus had, like Varius, come from Cremona, known Catullus intimately, and, if we accept the view of Servius for the sixth Eclogue, had been Vergil's most devoted companion in Siro's school.

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

Vergil was, therefore, on familiar ground when he tried to remind his schoolmate of Siro's philosophical themes by designating each of them by means of an appropriate myth.

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

The story of Hylas (I. 43) probably reminded Varus of Siro's lecture on images and reflection, Pasiphae (I. 46) of unruly passions, explained perhaps as in Lucretius 'fourth book, Atalanta (I. 61) of greed, and Phaeton of ambition.

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

Our biographies have somehow assumed Rome as the center of Siro's activities, though the evidence in favor of Naples is unmistakable.

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

Siro's villa apparently proved attractive to Vergil, for he made Naples his permanent home, despite the gift of a house on the Esquiline from Maecenas.

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

The whole poem, therefore, is a delightful commentary upon Vergil's life in Siro's garden, written probably after Siro had died, the school closed, and Varus gone off to war.

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

The recent publication of Lucretius's poem must have invested Siro's teaching with new attractiveness in the eyes of a young author, conscious of genius, but as yet self-distrustful, and willing to humble his mind before the "temple of speculative truth,"

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

Swinging At Siro's stopped going longer in bad effort; cuts back with blinkers added.

NY Daily News JERRY BOSSERT 2011