Does anyone know if it is generally held that Virgil's mother tongue was Latin, or if it could it have been the old Celtic language of Cisalpine Gaul or, possibly, Etruscan?
If it was Latin is it likely that he knew these other languages as someone brought up in rural North Wales (like an English friend of mine) might know Welsh? Patrick Roper ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
