At 11:03 AM 5/3/2002, Philip Thibodeau wrote: >In an article on "Astronomical Cruces in the Georgics" (TAPA 79: 24-45), >Robert J. Getty refers in passing to a conjecture made by a certain "De la >Rue (1675)" - without offering any further bibliographical data. He/she >may be Vergilian scholar or commentator, or perhaps a student of ancient >astronomy, fl. c.1675. Do listmembers have any idea who this individual >might be?
He's the editor of a popular and much-reprinted annotated edition of Virgil's Works first published in 1675. I happen to possess a 1727 London edition in which the title-page reads as follows: "P. Virgilii Maronis opera interpretatione et notis illustravit Carolus Ruaeus, Soc. Jesu, jussu Christianissimi Regis, ad usum Serenissimi Delphini. Juxta Editionem novissimam Parisiensem." The "index vocabulorum" of this edition runs to 223 pages. Dryden is known to have used the Ruaeus edition when making his translation of Virgil. Simon Cauchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Writers should be read and not seen." (Denis Welch) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
