<< message forwarded by listowner, David Wilson-Okamura >> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 13:42:09 -0400 From: "Jim O'Hara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
More: apparently the idea that Vergil was talking about anthrax appears in the first paragraph of a lot of articles about anthrax See also Dirckx JH. Virgil on anthrax. Am J Dermatopathol. 1981:3:191–195. [non vidi!!] Some people even think the Plague at Athens might have been anthrax, but there are lots of theories about that one. -- Jim O'Hara Paddison Professor of Latin 206B Howell Hall phone: (919) 962-7649 fax: (919) 962-4036 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.unc.edu/~oharaj surface mail: James J. O'Hara Department of Classics CB# 3145, 101 Howell Hall The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3145 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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