Re: "Sic mihi contingat vivere sicque mori". Many thanks to all of you for your various suggestions -- that my quotation is almost certainly post-classical, perhaps even from a Renaissance source, and possibly to be found in Ariosto's own Latin verse, some of which is written in elegiacs. I haven't access at present to a library that would enable me to follow up that last suggestion, but I have passed it on to Jason Scott-Warren, the author of the article I was reading, and he also is going to try to find the source of the quotation. If he or I ever manage to find it, I'll let all know.
Inn the mean time I now know a lot more than I did about "sicque" and the possible reasons for its avoidance by classical writers! Simon Cauchi, Freelance Editor and Indexer Hamilton, New Zealand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
