>Then how about Aeneid VI.119-123: > >si potuit manis accersere coniugis Orpheus >Threicia fretus cithara fidibus canoris, >si fratrem Pollus alterna morte redemit >itque reditque uiam totiens. quid Thesea, magnum >quid memorem Aliden? et mi genus ab Ioue summo. > >None of the commentaries that I have seen call this an example of >anacoluthon. H. E. Butler's gloss on 119 goes: "The apodosis comes in 123 >_et mi genus ab Ioue summo_, _quid ... Alciden?_ being parenthetical". But >I find that unconvincing. "If Orpheus ..., if Pollux ..., I too ...": what >sort of a conditional sentence is that?
Perhaps Vergil would have made the missing thought clear in performance, by inserting the appropriate gesture after totiens. I don't know exactly how a Roman would say "What about me?" using only his face and hands, but I think I can imagine some possibilities... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
