multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem
inferretque deos Latio - genus unde Latinum
Albanique patres atque altae moenia Romae

Hey, no foolin' - I now know the whole first sentence of the Aeneid by heart! Ain't I f*ckin' cool?

I love the phrase "learning by heart". Compare how that sounds next to "rote memorization." I think it's no accident that the great Pagan rebels of the Renaissance were often masters of the "art of memory." If you think about it, it has tremendous implications for the potentialities for the survial of Paganism during the Middle Ages - don't it?