RE: VIRGIL: Lumen Purpureum

2001-12-15 Thread Patrick Roper
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VIRGIL: Lumen Purpureum

2001-12-15 Thread Paul Roche
In Aeneid 1.588-593, Venus tarts the hero up so he will be more appealing toDido:Restitit Aeneas claraque in luce refulsit,os umerosque deo similis; namque ipsa decoramcaesariem nato genetrix lumenque iuventaepurpureum et laetos oculis adflarat honores:quale manus addunt ebori decus, aut

Re: VIRGIL: Lumen purpureum

2001-12-14 Thread Simon Cauchi
>In Thomas Hardy's novel A Pair of Blue Eyes there is this passage "She >looked so intensely LIVING and full of movement as she came into the >old silent place, that young Smith's world began to be lit by 'the >purple light' in all its definiteness." > >Apparently this is a translation of the Virgi

VIRGIL: Lumen purpureum

2001-12-14 Thread Patrick Roper
In Thomas Hardy's novel A Pair of Blue Eyes there is this passage "She looked so intensely LIVING and full of movement as she came into the old silent place, that young Smith's world began to be lit by 'the purple light' in all its definiteness." Apparently this is a translation of the Virgilian p