><< Message forwarded by moderator follows. >> > >From: "F. Heberlein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:08:46 +1 > >> Does someone know about a philosopher or grammarian >> called � Virgilius Maro � who was living in the 7th >> century? I would like to read something about this >> author, his life, his works. >> >This is Vergilius Maro Grammaticus, famous for his claim to have >attended in his youth a 13 days dispute on the correct vocative of "ego" >(now and then i ask our undergrads the 'correct' solution, and more >than often i get replies like "o ege" ...). >
Under what circumstances would one use a vocative form of the 1st-person singular pronoun? And please don't keep us in suspense: which form did VMG regard as "correct," and which were the competing forms? >A recent treatment is: > >Law, Vivien >Wisdom, authority and grammar in the seventh century > decoding Virgilius Maro Grammaticus >Cambridge Univ. Press ISBN : 0-521-47113-3 >1995 > >Fritz Heberlein > >Dr. Friedrich Heberlein, Akad. Direktor >Seminar f�r Klassische Philologie >KU Eichstaett >Ostenstr. 26-28 >D-85071 Eichstaett / Bayern > >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Tel.: +49 8421 93 1544 / 93 2544 >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 James Lawrence Peter Butrica Department of Classics Memorial University St. John's, Newfoundland A1C 5S7 (709) 737-7914 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
