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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Hello, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Do listmembers know anything about the 
illustrated manuscript Holkham MS 311? Details from it are featured on the 
front 
cover of Wilkinson's Georgics and Lee's Eclogues (both Penguin). Anything will 
be appreciated - date, location, publications.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Paul Roche</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">UQ</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 Dinali Abeysekera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was wondering why Virigil wasn' proud of the Aeneid.  Why did he want
> it burned?  It couldn't have been merely because it wasn't finished...

Virgil wasn't proud of the Aeneid because it wasn't perfect/finished.
Virgil was a true perfectionist.  The Georgics took him seven years to
finish (it reallyisn't all that long of a poem).


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