>Dear List, > >I am trying to find a poem Virgil wrote >regarding I believe "Peripus" >I copied it down in the museum at >Ephesus, however my notebook was stolen. > >I hope this request is within the bounds >of this list. > >The poem as close as I can remember >was addressed to some young men >encouraging them to revel in drink. > >thank you for any help >you can give me, > >Gary Glazner > > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
Could it be that you are thinking of the "Priapea," a collection of about 80 short poems sometimes attributed to Virgil in antiquity and the middle ages? It's more a matter of a statue of Priapus threatening to exact various punishments from whoever tries to pilfer from the garden he guards. Or perhaps you have in mind specifically the poem beginning "Quid hoc noui est? quid ira nuntiat deum?" which is generally printed with the Priapea (though it has a separate manuscript tradition, I believe) and also in editions of the Appendix Vergiliana; this, however, is about a case of impotence. James Lawrence Peter Butrica Department of Classics Memorial University St. John's, Newfoundland A1C 5S7 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
