Just a side note, Dido does not say 'remember me' but she says she wishes
she had Aeneas' child so she could remember the father (IV 327-330, esp. si quis
mihi parvulus aula luderet Aeneas, qui te tamen ore
referret.
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Subject: Re: VIRGIL: Remember me?
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Patrick Roper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>In regard to the current discussion on teaching the Aeneid in
translation,
>an _expression_ that seems to have become embedded in the
English-speaking
>psyche since the time of Purcell's Dido & Aeneas
(and maybe before) is
>"remember me" as a special request. Does
Virgil actually put any such words
>into Dido's mouth (I tried to find
such and failed)?
No, nothing so resigned: a good round curse, other
revenge having been
contemplated (4. 563-4) but not executed (4. 600-6).
It is Aeneas who
says he will not be sorry [i.e. be very happy] to
remember her (4. 335).
Leofranc Holford-Strevens
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