>> In his Virgil's Georgics, Mynors quotes Servius about 1.113 : "et est >> Vergilii hoc hemistichion (i. e. : >> cum primum sulcos aequant sata) unum de invictis". >> I really don't understand the meaning of that quotation, especially >> "invictis". >> I appreciate some explanations. Thank you for your help. >> >> Muriel Lafond >> > > You are not alone in finding this incomprehensible. > I've checked our library's copy of the Thilo-Hagen edition of Servius, and > it may offer some help, though you'll need to work on the details yourself > since we don't have the necessary resources here. > The first thing to note is that the Dutch scholar Peerlkamp suggested > emending "inuictis" to "inductis" and discussed this in an article for > which Thilo-Hagen gives the reference "Mnemos. X, p. 121f." Mnemosyne has > been through several series in its long and distinguished lifetime, but I > would guess this to be the first or second (our holdings do not go back > nearly far enough). > Thilo-Hagen, however, counter this with a reference to "Burmann's > annotation," which I would assume to be a note on Georgics 1.113 in an > edition produced by him, again not available here. > > James L. P. Butrica > Department of Classics > The Memorial University of Newfoundland > St. John's NL A1C 5S7 > (709) 737-7914 / (709) 753-5799 (home) >
I want to express my thanks to James Butrica. I've checked too in our library, but I couldn't find either the books that you mentioned. However, I'll persist in my research. Muriel Lafond ********** SPECIAL ADSL ********** L'ADSL à partir de 15,95 EUR/mois et le modem ADSL offert ? C'est en exclusivité chez Tiscali ! Pour profiter de cette offre, cliquez ici: http://register.tiscali.fr/adsl/ Offre soumise à conditions. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
