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 > elegiac couplet, but I've had no success in tracing the source of this > line. Help from a classicist will be much appreciated: "Sic mihi contingat > vivere sicque mori." > > Simon Cauchi, Freelance Editor and Indexer, Hamilton, New Zealand > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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