VIRGIL: What others say about Virgil Attn Leofranc

[Hieronymus Prechtl]

    Good morning All...

    I had written:

> >DONATUS: a few things here and there, like that Cicero,  having
familiarized
> >himself with every nuance of the "Bucolics," was so impressed  that he
> >declared Virgil  "the second great hope of Rome," as if he himself were
the
> >first hope of the Latin language and Virgil the second.

    Leofranc Holford-Strevens replied:

> Where does Donatus say that? and what time had Cicero to read even a
> single eclogue before being murdered?

    Hi Leofranc,

    I am not saying it is true.  Not everything Donato says about Virgil
    would stand up in a court of inquiry.  But -- here is where I found it:

      LIFE OF VIRGIL  tr. David Wilson-Okamura

90. The success of the Bucolics was such when he published it, that the
      cantores recited them frequently, even on stage. <As for Cicero, when
he
      had heard some of the verses, his piercing judgement immediately
      perceived that these were productions of uncommon vigor, and ordered
the
      whole eclogue to be recited from the beginning. Having familiarized
himself
      with its every nuance, he declared it "the second great hope of Rome,"
as
      if he himself were the first hope of the Latin language and Maro the
      second. These words Virgil later inserted in the Aeneid [12.168].>
      http://www.virgil.org/vitae/a-donatus.htm]

     If you have an opinion as to the veracity of D in the context, please
tell me.

     And have a good day -- what remains of it in GB... this side of the
ocean it
     has barely begun....

     Ambros

     NB:  Your "usque adeone scire MEVM nihil est, nisi ME scire hoc sciat
alter" --
              sounds as if it could be Cicero but it might be you  --
respondere meum
              satisne fecit?


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