Many thanks to all of you who replied to my question about the other Virgil.I am sorry to be late to do that.
Virgilius (Virgile in French) as a name, is nowaday quite unusual and meeting people who were given it is somehow rare. I think it began to be used as a first name in France during the Renaissance period. As for latin names,I personally know two Virgile, one Terence, three Martial (and even one Agricola !). I think the first name Virgile is still quite common in the former French colonies of Africa and in French territory like Martinique, Guadeloupe and Guyana. The quotation of the Eglogues I, below my name, is indeed a very nice one. Recently I made an exhibition of some of my calligraphy works here in Tokyo. Most of the works were in English, some in Italian, and only two in Latin : one was the poem of Quintus Horatius Flaccus, « TU NE QUAESIERIS… » (Carminum Liber I, XI), and the other the quotation of Eglogues I (79-83). I choose to write and enluminate this quotation for the reason that, may be, it is a good example of what is « AMOR » in Virgil. In the Eneid, Anchises is welcoming is son in the Elysium by these words « VICIT ITER DURUM PIETAS ». And « Pietas » seems to be a consequence of Aeneas travel down to visit his father. I admire very much the roman « PIETAS », of course, like, for example, the one that felt Aeneas when he met with Dido in the Campi Lugentes. But PIETAS seems to me a quite difficult word… There is also the law of Juppiter, in the Georgics, poem of the arduous « culture » of the earth : « LABOR OMNIA VINCIT ». As I am living in Japan, I may have a good idea of what means « LABOR » ! I would not say I like this word too much… And then,there is the « OMNIA VINCIT AMOR » of the Eglogues. Of course, I am not Meliboeus, but I can’t refrain from time to time, living so far from my country, to repeat to myself the verses 64, 65, 66 : « AT NOS HINC ALII SITIENTES IBIMUS AFROS, PARS SCYTHIAM ET RAPIDUM CRETAE VENIEMUS OAXEN ET PENITUS TOTO DIVISOS ORBE BRITANNOS ». For the exhibition, I could not possibly have written those three one ! The Reply of Tityrus was more appropriate. N.B. : I have, of course, nothing against Japanese people. ===== Andre-Paul Itel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hic tamen hanc mecum potera requiescere noctem Fronde super viridi. Super nobis mitia poma, Castaneae molles et pressi copia lactis; Et jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant, Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbrae. ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
