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Mantovano, the Virgil mailing list, exists to discuss:
+ The works attributed to Publius Vergilius Maro.
+ The tradition of Virgil interpretation beginning with Servius and continuing to the present day.
+ Virgil's influence on subsequent poetry.
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"peritus"
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A quick query - can one ever use "peritus" (the perf. pass. part. of
pereo) = dead (or is pereo wholly intransitive)? If so, this would be
short 'i' as opposed to 'peritus' = skilled, long-'i'?
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and C. S. Lewis
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This is trivial, and doesn't rise to the level of our recent and more
serious threads.
Collected Letters 3:39 (ed. Walter Hooper)
To George Sayer (former student), 21 June 1950
"...We shall have all our days to ourselves except for my calling at
the Nursing Home each afternoon [to visit his adoptive mother]; and we... more »
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A last comment on AL 914
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...for now at least... and this time I think telling fairly heavily
towards late authorship
1. [Gallus] 99-100
Heu male (crede mihi) si quis sua gaudia differt;
Dum loquimur, nox est, mortis et umbra subit.
2. On the one hand, one can well imagine a poem of real Gallus
finishing like this: not dissimilar in atmosphere is the end of... more »
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Geo. 3.108-109
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iamque humiles iamque elati sublime uidentur
aera per uacuum ferri atque adsurgere in auras.
(Geo. 3.108-109)
I see an unexpected wordplay in Geo. 3.109 although I'm not sure that
it's not just chimerical. I wonder if anyone else sees the same?
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.93 and Ciris 343
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Another point in [Gallus] = AL914, I'm afraid. But I think this one is
quite striking
1. [Gallus] 93
“Nec dominae pudeat gremio captare soporem”
‘Capio somnum (vel. sim)’ is a common phrase, but ‘capto somnum (vel.
sim)’ is not. But there is a very close parallel at [Verg.] Ciris 343... more »
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Venice conference in honor of Mario Geymonat
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Università Ca’Foscari, Venezia
Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità e del Vicino Oriente
NOSTER MARO
GIORNATA DI STUDI VIRGILIANI
IN ONORE DI
MARIO GEYMONAT
Ca’ Foscari – Aula Baratto
27 maggio 2009
Programma... more »
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Ecphrastic 'ordo'
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Common to the two most prominent ecphrases in the Aeneid is the
introduction of the images using the word "ordine": at Aen. 1.456 (the
temple of Dido) "ex ordine" and Aen. 8.625 "in ordine". The point of
the emphasis has been variously interpreted - e.g. "ex ordine" at Aen.
1.456 is intended to show that *all* the scenes from the Trojan war... more »
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Lucan 3.165-8; Gallus Fr. 2 Courtney; Aen. 1.286-90
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"tunc Orientis opes captorumque ultima regum 165
quae Pompeianis praelata est gaza triumphis
egeritur; tristi spoliantur templa rapina,
pauperiorque fuit tum primum Caesare Roma."
The context is Julius Caesar's entering into Rome and plundering the
temple of Saturn, with the Eastern riches stored there being given the... more »
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More on murder theory
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Several years ago, one of our former members, Jean-Yves Maleuvre,
launched a website, [link], which argues that Virgil
was murdered by Augustus. I'm still a skeptic, but a few days ago
Maleuvre contacted me to say that the website has been updated with a
new look and new evidence. I promised that I would relay this... more »
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AL914 (...again...)
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Acer Amor deus est: foetas domat ille leaenas.
excuset facinus vindice Scylla deo.
At, pius aeternam servet ni Juppiter Urbem,
scilicet occiderat virginis illa dolo. (AL 914.29-32)
Leofranc, you mentioned that "cantusque sciens" (AL 914.15) - the
short e before "sc" was backward looking? Is "vindice Scylla" another... more »
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