How to be deleted from history...

I would like to treat you to a hilarious fact about Loeb Classics, the authoritative bilingual series of classical Greek and Latin texts standardly used by students and scholars, which I discovered in my essay readings:

Until recently, passages in the Greek texts dealing with homosexuality, whether positively or negatively, were translated not into English but into Latin. Similarly, problematic Roman passages were translated into Italian!

This is revealing not only about Loeb's attitude to homosexuality, but also about the esteem they had for their readers. And for Italians...

N.B. In the new translations Loeb has mended it ways, restoring passages that "might give offense". (For another laugh look at their own explanation and illustration.)
Still, it will take a long time before the old editions will have disappeared from book collections and libraries.