In message <Pine.GSO.3.95-960729.1011025205254.19521A- [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, M W Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > I >think V generally tries to get his scientific facts right,
A very good subject for debate, pitting the late-antique 'It's all there in Vergil' school against the likes of Horsfall, > but he is >always more interested in making moral and religious and literary, cf. the apt comment on the book-endings. >rather than >scientific points. His description: [...] As everyone since Servius has seen, this is the counterpart amongst the beasts to the Great Plague at Athens, which no one has diagnosed and not for want of trying. If we can't identify an undoubtedly historical disease, what chance have we with one that may have been made up? Mynors, though formally leaving the question of historicity open, makes no attempt to identify the Noricum plague; can any listmember in cattle country do better, or is the very attempt as fatuous as asking how many children had Lady Macbeth? Leofranc Holford-Strevens *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* Leofranc Holford-Strevens 67 St Bernard's Road usque adeone Oxford scire MEVM nihil est, nisi ME scire hoc sciat alter? OX2 6EJ tel. +44 (0)1865 552808(home)/267865(work) fax +44 (0)1865 512237 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
