Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 11:42:00 -0400 From: Andy Lafrenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This follows up on Randi Eldevik's comments about the coluber mala gramina pastus. Actually, the phrase occurs in Book II of the Aeneid, at line 471. Virgil (Vergil?) uses a snake motif a little earlier in the same book, where the Greek commander Androgeos suddenly realizes that he has fallen in with Trojans disguised as Greeks. His horror , Virgil tells us at lines 379-382, is like one who unwittingly steps on a snake and tries to flee the enraged serpent. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. You will just prove to everyone that you can't read directions. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body.
