Disgrace Spectacular verses

A POEM by Virgil has been found engraved in an ancient Roman amphora.

The 1,800-year-old oil vat, found in Cordoba, featured the fated words of the legendary poet inside.

The fragments, measuring six by eight centimetres, were found by archaeologists at the Noguera site, near Fuente Palmera, in 2016.

After seven years of laborious work, an international team of archaeologists from Cordoba, Sevilla and Montpellier have confirmed words engraved were from the classical Roman poet. Virgil, who wrote the Aeneid, is credited with having a great influence on western literature, most notably Dante’s Divine Comedy, in which Virgil appears as the author's guide through hell and purgatory. It is not known where the extraordinary find will eventually be housed.

Hours off

SPAIN’S deputy prime minister Yolanda Diaz has proposed lowering the working week from 40 to 32 hours.

The leader of left-wing alliance

Sumar wants to start by dropping it to 37.5 hours next year.

She described the plan as ‘revolutionary’, insisting ‘time is the most valuable thing’ for workers who do not have ‘grand properties, nor important surnames’.

She insisted wages would not need to be cut ‘if productivity is improved’ from the scheme.

The proposal is not the first time the government has suggested a cut to worker hours. A pilot project was put in place last year to trial a four-day working week, with the results not yet released.