At 04:32 PM 9/22/99 +0000, you wrote: > As far as I know P.Virgilius Maro Grammaticus of Tolouse is the only >one to have adopted the whole of Virgil's name ! I have only ever come >across a few men named Virgil: (1)Vergilius Romanus, a friend of Pliny >the Younger; (2)Virgilianus, the son of Vibius Sequester (the author of" >de Fluminibus Fontibus Lacubus etc" which preserved a line by Cornelius >Gallus on the river Hypanis);(3) one of Alcuin's fellow scholars who >adopted it as a pen name ;(4) Polydore Vergil; and its American use as a >first name is exemplified by (5) the composer Virgil Thomson, and (7) a >television character in "McHale's Navy". Are there any others, I wonder?
Let us not forget Virgil "Gus" Grissom, who unintentionally scuttled his Mercury space capsule in the Atlantic (or so it says in _The Right Stuff_). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wilson-Okamura http://virgil.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Macalester College Virgil Tradition: discussion, bibliography, &c. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
