In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Patrick Roper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Thanks to Leofranc and David for help on Helens' robe and Mrs >Swancourt's rings. > >The passage in Thomas Hardy finishes with a heniadys of his own which >can scarcely be accidental: "Beyond this rather quaint array of stone >and metal Mrs Swancourt wore no ornament whatever." (But is 'stone >and metal' really a hendiadys?)
Not really: the sense is not 'stony metal' or 'metallic stone'. > >I suspect all this was aimed at his friend and Classics tutor Horace >Moule, rather than the general public whom he hoped would be reading >his novel. Between the mass public and the old tutor there stands that very large body of educated general readers who had done their school Latin would have read the early books of the Aeneid, even if little other Latin poetry apart from Horace and some Catullus; but why take a minimalist view when even knowledge of Greek was more widespread amongst educated men, and indeed educated women, than at any time before or since? (Indeed, competence in both was required for admission to Oxford and Cambridge.) Leofranc *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* 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)/353865(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
