Have you read Nancy Kress's story "Mithridates, He Died Old" in the January 2013 issue of Asimov's? (Excerpt available here.) In the introduction, she mentions that "A.E. Housman is one of my favorite poets. ... His poem ‘Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff,’ which is actually about the mythical king Mithridates, has
fascinated me for forty years, and I was so happy to write a story
using its famous last line."
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