Hi, Megan --
I have seen a movie based on that book, but have never read the book
itself and don't know the story that well. So it's hard for me to give
you an answer. Can you refresh my memory about the character Virgil, and
I will tell you whether he seems to have anything to do with the poet?
Sorry, everyone; I mistook this for a private message. Perhaps someone
else who knows the novel can comment.
Joe Farrell wrote:
Hi, Megan --
I have seen a movie based on that book, but have never read the book
itself and don't know the story that well. So it's hard for me to give
you
Arne Jönsson wrote:
quid quaeque may have been pronounced quicquaeque by assimilation thus
making the pronounciation considerably easier.
Yes, I've wondered about this. It may have been pronounced thus colloquially,
but a declaimer of epic poetry might be expected to enunciate more carefully.
RANDI C ELDEVIK wrote:
It's a bit hard for me to believe that the -cqu- combination would have
been considered difficult to pronounce, when that very combination is what
resulted when prefixes such as ad were added to words beginning with
qu-. For example, ad + quiescere = acquiescere. That
Philip Thibodeau wrote:
for a full-corpus search on the Latin CDrom yielded about 25 instances of
sicque, all fairly late, as has been noted, vs. well over a thousand
instances of the alternative, et sic; so sicque definitely seems to have
been avoided But then I mentioned this to a
Otfried Lieberknecht and Phil Thibodeau are much better versed in this
area than I, but let me hazard a layman's explanation not of the golden
ratio or the Fibonacci sequence themselves, but on the supposed meaning
of these phenomena in Vergil and elsewhere. I see three main
possibilities:
1.
