I don't have time to go through all Ovid's _Heroides_ and _Amores_
right now, but that's where I would start looking. Hope this pans out.
Randi Eldevik
Oklahoma State University
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Simon Cauchi wrote:
This is probably not Virgil, since it's clearly the second line of an
I was thinking of Austin's remark that Aeneas' vision of the gods during
the Fall of Troy shows them in demonic form. There is indeed something
extraordinarily shocking about seeing 'the Father himself' (l.617) so
committed to destruction. Yet Aeneas and his family do not hesitate in
the next
At 10:37 PM 2/25/99 +, Martin Hughes wrote:
V does seem to agree that the religious
mind is often full of terrors, and for this reason he was read as an
atheist by some eighteenth century scholars (to whom I was introduced by
reading Gibbon's essay on Book VI).
As
I can't find it as yet, but Amores i.3.18 is rather similar, so it's
probably Ovid, but I'm pretty sure it's not Amores
Dan King
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From: Simon Cauchi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: VIRGIL: source of quotation please
Date: Thursday, February 25, 1999 4:09 AM
This
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dan King
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
I can't find it as yet, but Amores i.3.18 is rather similar, so it's
probably Ovid, but I'm pretty sure it's not Amores
Neither have I found it yet, but what classical author writes 'sicque'?
Leofranc Holford-Strevens
Re: Sic mihi contingat vivere sicque mori.
Leofranc Holford-Strevens writes:
Neither have I found it yet, but what classical author writes 'sicque'?
Good point. This suggests (and, sorry, I should have mentioned it) that the
line may be from a neo-Latin poem. The quotation concludes the Life of
Does anyone know of any websites that help students literally translate
the Aeneid?
I heard rumors of websites that with the magical click of the mouse help
identify odd forms and display the meaning of the words. This could be
an invaluable tool in learning. Knowing the tricky grammatical
At 07:27 PM 2/25/99 PST, you wrote:
Does anyone know of any websites that help students literally translate
the Aeneid?
I heard rumors of websites that with the magical click of the mouse help
identify odd forms and display the meaning of the words. This could be
an invaluable tool in
