In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Farnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >A question of sources... > >During the war with Turnus, Virgil enumerates various peoples and their >leaders, with details of both. For instance, as Dryden has it: > > Ocnus was next, who led his native train >Of hardy warriors thro' the wat'ry plain: >The son of Manto by the Tuscan stream, >>From whence the Mantuan town derives the name -- >An ancient city, but of mix'd descent: >Three sev'ral tribes compose the government; >Four towns are under each; but all obey >The Mantuan laws, and own the Tuscan sway. > >>From whence comes all these supposed details of early Italic history? > See the commentary on Aeneid 10 by S. J. Harrison (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), pp. 109-11, 124-5.
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