<x-html><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">I post this to thank all the list members for their replies (both public and private) to my recent question concerning Holkham MS 311. I appreciate the response, and have learnt a lot about the manuscript. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Thank You</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Paul Roche</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">University of Queensland</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> </x-html>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Dec 15 12:41:28 2001 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Dec 15 02:31:16 2001 Received: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by wilsonwork.com (8.11.6) id fBF2Tn407212; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 02:29:49 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: wilsonwork.com: wilsonwk set sender to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f X-Originating-IP: [203.59.209.221] From: "Graeme Miles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: VIRGIL: Lumen Purpureum Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 02:29:40 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Dec 2001 02:29:41.0073 (UTC) FILETIME=[5981BC10:01C18510] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-UIDL: gQ5"!-&D!!JO3"!g"+"!
There's more purple light in the dress circle of the underworld, Aeneid 6.640-1: largior hic campos aether et lumine vestit purpureo, solemque suum, sua sidera norunt. Austin writes in his note on this that purpureus means "not the English purple, but lustrous, dazzling", citing examples of its application to salt, swans, light on waves, and to spring in Eclogue 9.40, "ver purpureum". He also refers to Fordyce on Catullus 45.12, who lists a few more examples. Cheers, Graeme >From: "Paul Roche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: VIRGIL: Lumen Purpureum >Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 22:07:21 +1000 > >In Aeneid 1.588-593, Venus tarts the hero up so he will be more appealing >to >Dido: >Restitit Aeneas claraque in luce refulsit, >os umerosque deo similis; namque ipsa decoram >caesariem nato genetrix lumenque iuventae >purpureum et laetos oculis adflarat honores: >quale manus addunt ebori decus, aut ubi flavo >argentum Pariusve lapis circumdatur auro. >And again, as Simon Cauchi has noted, at 6.636-641, in a phrase in which >Virgil draws on the Homeric description of Olympus at Od.6.41-49, although, >in the Homeric passage, the light is white/dazzling, brilliant (45). >Paul Roche >University of Queensland > _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
