At 08:48 PM 11/18/99 -0800, Gregory Hays wrote: >Whatever else is going on here, there is surely an allusion to another >headless body lying on a shore--that of Pompey (hence 'ingens,' hinting at >'magnus'). So Servius ad loc. "Pompei tangit historiam," continuing "quod >autem dicit 'litore', illud ... respicit quod in Pacuvii tragoedia >continetur: Priami corpus ad litus tractum." DS adds a couple of less >plausible interpretations of 'litore,' which obviously bothered ancient >readers too.
1. Perhaps litus merely refers to the shore of the harbor, Sigeum, which Aeneas can see from his house (see Aen. 2.312: "Sigea igni freta lata relucent"). 2. What do people make of the Pompey reference here? I find myself partial to a notion which I shall crudely express as "the Fall of Troy = the End of the Republic" (with the implication in book 3 that you can't back). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wilson-Okamura http://virgil.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Macalester College Virgil Tradition: discussion, bibliography, &c. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
