> What's the British attitude? Doesn't anyone there give the name >Homer or Virgil to their son? After all, one meets Englishmen named >Terence, etc.
To someone like me brought up in the UK, Homer and Virgil used as forenames sound distinctly American -- I didn't know they had a hillbilly ring. In England I don't think Terence is taken to allude to the Roman playwright. Nor Horace to the poet. I've never heard of anyone called Plautus or Catullus. I'm sure I've heard or read of a dog called Virgil (or perhaps it was Vergil) but I can't remember where. In Malta there was (is?) a fashion for Greek names, e.g. Sir Themistocles Zammit. Back to work! (I'm editing a book on a field of study I didn't even know existed -- the constitutional law of revolutions. Cases cited come from Restoration England, the secessionist South, UDI Rhodesia, Grenada, Fiji, Queensland, etc., but so far nothing from ancient Rome, unless you count a quotation from De Civ. Dei, IV, 4.) Simon Cauchi, 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
