In Georgics 1.388-9 Vergil describes a crow calling for rain: tum cornix plena pluviam vocat improba voce et sola in sicca secum spatiatur harena.
Why the s's? I assume that's not the sound crows make, even if they're Latin crows. Philip Thibodeau Brown University ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
