I appreciate the Gallus connection; it seems that from here we have a chance to follow Skutsch, at least a few steps. -- Also, the funny picture of tongue-tied Silenus seems to me to have its potentials -- though Buechner in RE, I believe, praises precisely vv. 62-3 for their expressive force, something like _it puts us right in the picture_.
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Leofranc Holford-Strevens wrote: > Isn't the point that the bark exudes the musk, i.e. the amber? (Cf. > Ovid,_Met._ 2. 344-66 for a fuller account.) > You see, this is the point where my _hubris_ started; I have seen the _muscus_ = musk note in the Lewis-Short; but OLD is silent on this point, and Vergil in other places writes _muscus_ and _muscosus_ always meaning _moss_. I have checked, and my beautiful idea had to evaporate. Neven Zagreb, Hrvatska ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
