<< message forwarded by listowner, David Wilson-Okamura >> From: "Paul O. Wendland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 17:53:27 -0600
> A better place to start > from if you want to look for reflections of Aeneas' character in dying > Turnus is the nice parallel between Turnus' limbs being undone by > cold here > (solvuntur frigore membra), and Aeneas' limbs being undone by > cold the very > first time he appears by name in the epic, in 1.92: > > extemplo Aeneae solvuntur frigore membra > Also a pretty typical case of inclusio--backing out of a piece the same way you came in--that may be some evidence indicating the work was not half so unfinished as Virgil thought it was. What was it Hemingway once said? "I never so much *finished* a book as I *abandoned* it. Paul O. Wendland [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
