Re: VIRGIL: Another Virgilius Maro?

1999-09-22 Thread James Butrica
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From: F. Heberlein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:08:46 +1

 Does someone know about a philosopher or grammarian
 called « Virgilius Maro » who was living in the 7th
 century? I would like to read something about this
 author, his life, his works.

This is Vergilius Maro Grammaticus, famous for his claim to have
attended in his youth  a 13 days dispute on the correct vocative of ego
(now and then i ask our undergrads the 'correct' solution, and more
than often i get replies like o ege ...).


Under what circumstances would one use a vocative form of the 1st-person
singular pronoun? And please don't keep us in suspense: which form did VMG
regard as correct, and which were the competing forms?





A recent treatment is:

Law, Vivien
Wisdom, authority and grammar in the seventh century
 decoding Virgilius Maro Grammaticus
Cambridge Univ. Press ISBN   : 0-521-47113-3
1995

Fritz Heberlein

Dr. Friedrich Heberlein, Akad. Direktor
Seminar für Klassische Philologie
KU Eichstaett
Ostenstr. 26-28
D-85071 Eichstaett / Bayern

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Re: VIRGIL: Another Virgilius Maro?

1999-09-22 Thread David Wilson-Okamura
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From: F. Heberlein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:08:46 +1
 
 Does someone know about a philosopher or grammarian
 called « Virgilius Maro » who was living in the 7th
 century? I would like to read something about this
 author, his life, his works.
 
This is Vergilius Maro Grammaticus, famous for his claim to have 
attended in his youth  a 13 days dispute on the correct vocative of ego
(now and then i ask our undergrads the 'correct' solution, and more 
than often i get replies like o ege ...).

A recent treatment is:

Law, Vivien
Wisdom, authority and grammar in the seventh century
 decoding Virgilius Maro Grammaticus  
Cambridge Univ. Press ISBN   : 0-521-47113-3
1995 

Fritz Heberlein

Dr. Friedrich Heberlein, Akad. Direktor
Seminar für Klassische Philologie
KU Eichstaett
Ostenstr. 26-28
D-85071 Eichstaett / Bayern

email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: VIRGIL: Another Virgilius Maro?

1999-09-22 Thread Philip Thibodeau
The collection of quotations regarding P. Virgilius Maro was very
entertaining.  I recall reading a review of a book on PVM and wondering
whether this was an April Fool's edition of the journal it was in!  At any
rate, the book might be worth mentioning:  it's by Vivien Law, and is
called, Wisdom, authority, and grammar in the seventh centruy : decoding
Virgilius Maro Grammaticus (Cambridge University Press, 1995).  She tries
valiantly to place PVM within his context, and does something useful in that
respect, as I recall.

Phil Thibodeau


Dear Andre'-Paul,

 P.Virgilius Maro of Toulouse (fl.ca.A.D. 630) is mentioned a few times
in Helen Waddell's The Wandering Scholars (1936, 7th ed. rev.):
p.30 It was a low tide [in Latin letters] on the Continent of Europe,
except for one deep pool at Toulouse where the grammarian Virgilius Maro
agitated strangely on the secret tongues of Latin, and told his story of
the two scholars who argued for fifteen days and nights without sleeping
or eating on the frequentative of the verb to be, till it almost came
to knives, rather like the monsters one exspects to find stranded in an
ebb. (Waddell refers to a Epist.de Verbo (Teubner, p.138) and De
Catalogo Grammaticorum ,( pp.88-90).)

p.40-41,n.3 The style of Martianus Capella is thoroughly vicious, and
Virgilius Maro of Tolouse with his secret Latin known only to the
initiate sets just the kind of riddle to intrigue the barbarian mind.

 Domenico Comparetti in his Vergil in the Middle Ages(p.124 ,Eng
.trans) describes Virgilius Maro in the following bravura passage :
. . . that enigmatical monstrosity, at once comic and tragic, the
Vergil of Tolouse, who considered in respect of his surroundings and
origin, gives the impression of little else than a grim joke. He is
perhaps the only medieval grammarian who deserves to be called original,
but his originality takes a strange turn. Ideas, facts, names of
authors, words and rules are all alike invented by his fertile brain,
which ends by distinguishing twelve different kinds of Latin, and
putting Vergil in the time of the Flood. This strange writer, with his
claims to great grammatical authority and his adoption of the name of
Vergilius Maro to enforce those claims, reminds one irresistibly in the
squalor of his time (6th-7th century) of those hideous and putrid fungi
which are generated in the rotting leaves of autumn . . .

Comparetti refers (p.124,n.9) to a complete edition of Virgilius Maro's
works: I. Huemer(ed.)(1886) Virgilii Maronis Grammatici Opera Lipsiæ:
Teubner.


 Incidentally, Ennodius (ca.A.D.473-521) was angry that the name of
Virgil had been adopted by worthless men. He addressed such a one thus:
In tantum prisci defluxit fama Maronis,
 ut te Vergilium sæcula nostra darent.
si fatuo dabitur tam sanctum nomen homullo
 gloria maiorum curret in opprobrium, etc

[Carm. ii.118 ff quoted by Comparetti p.71 Eng. trans.]

 As far as I know P.Virgilius Maro Grammaticus of Tolouse  is the only
one to have adopted the whole of Virgil's name ! I have only ever come
across a few men named Virgil:  (1)Vergilius Romanus, a friend of Pliny
the Younger; (2)Virgilianus, the son of Vibius Sequester (the author of
de Fluminibus  Fontibus Lacubus etc which preserved a line by Cornelius
Gallus on the river Hypanis);(3) one of Alcuin's fellow scholars who
adopted it as a pen name ;(4) Polydore Vergil; and its American use as a
first name is exemplified by (5) the composer Virgil Thomson, and (7) a
television character in McHale's Navy. Are there any others, I wonder?

Best wishes
Peter JVD BRYANT
Perth
Western Australia
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P.S. Your quotation of the First Eclogue pleases me: it is one of my
favourite passages from Virgil.




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Re: VIRGIL: Another Virgilius Maro?

1999-09-22 Thread Peter Bryant
Dear Andre'-Paul,   

P.Virgilius Maro of Toulouse (fl.ca.A.D. 630) is mentioned a few times 
in Helen Waddell's The Wandering Scholars (1936, 7th ed. rev.):
p.30 It was a low tide [in Latin letters] on the Continent of Europe, 
except for one deep pool at Toulouse where the grammarian Virgilius Maro 
agitated strangely on the secret tongues of Latin, and told his story of 
the two scholars who argued for fifteen days and nights without sleeping 
or eating on the frequentative of the verb to be, till it almost came 
to knives, rather like the monsters one exspects to find stranded in an 
ebb. (Waddell refers to a Epist.de Verbo (Teubner, p.138) and De 
Catalogo Grammaticorum ,( pp.88-90).)

p.40-41,n.3 The style of Martianus Capella is thoroughly vicious, and 
Virgilius Maro of Tolouse with his secret Latin known only to the 
initiate sets just the kind of riddle to intrigue the barbarian mind.

Domenico Comparetti in his Vergil in the Middle Ages(p.124 ,Eng 
.trans) describes Virgilius Maro in the following bravura passage :
. . . that enigmatical monstrosity, at once comic and tragic, the 
Vergil of Tolouse, who considered in respect of his surroundings and 
origin, gives the impression of little else than a grim joke. He is 
perhaps the only medieval grammarian who deserves to be called original, 
but his originality takes a strange turn. Ideas, facts, names of 
authors, words and rules are all alike invented by his fertile brain, 
which ends by distinguishing twelve different kinds of Latin, and 
putting Vergil in the time of the Flood. This strange writer, with his 
claims to great grammatical authority and his adoption of the name of 
Vergilius Maro to enforce those claims, reminds one irresistibly in the 
squalor of his time (6th-7th century) of those hideous and putrid fungi 
which are generated in the rotting leaves of autumn . . .

Comparetti refers (p.124,n.9) to a complete edition of Virgilius Maro's 
works: I. Huemer(ed.)(1886) Virgilii Maronis Grammatici Opera Lipsiæ: 
Teubner.


Incidentally, Ennodius (ca.A.D.473-521) was angry that the name of 
Virgil had been adopted by worthless men. He addressed such a one thus:
In tantum prisci defluxit fama Maronis,
ut te Vergilium sæcula nostra darent.
si fatuo dabitur tam sanctum nomen homullo
gloria maiorum curret in opprobrium, etc

[Carm. ii.118 ff quoted by Comparetti p.71 Eng. trans.]

As far as I know P.Virgilius Maro Grammaticus of Tolouse  is the only 
one to have adopted the whole of Virgil's name ! I have only ever come 
across a few men named Virgil:  (1)Vergilius Romanus, a friend of Pliny 
the Younger; (2)Virgilianus, the son of Vibius Sequester (the author of 
de Fluminibus  Fontibus Lacubus etc which preserved a line by Cornelius 
Gallus on the river Hypanis);(3) one of Alcuin's fellow scholars who 
adopted it as a pen name ;(4) Polydore Vergil; and its American use as a 
first name is exemplified by (5) the composer Virgil Thomson, and (7) a 
television character in McHale's Navy. Are there any others, I wonder?

Best wishes
Peter JVD BRYANT
Perth
Western Australia
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P.S. Your quotation of the First Eclogue pleases me: it is one of my 
favourite passages from Virgil.


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 everyone that may be not happy with that.
 
 Does someone know about a philosopher or grammarian
 called « Virgilius Maro » who was living in the 7th
 century? I would like to read something about this
 author, his life, his works.
 
 Thank you for your help.
 
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Re: VIRGIL: Another Virgilius Maro?

1999-09-22 Thread Leofranc Holford-Strevens
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Philip
Thibodeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
The collection of quotations regarding P. Virgilius Maro was very
entertaining.  I recall reading a review of a book on PVM and wondering
whether this was an April Fool's edition of the journal it was in!  At any
rate, the book might be worth mentioning:  it's by Vivien Law, and is
called, Wisdom, authority, and grammar in the seventh centruy : decoding
Virgilius Maro Grammaticus (Cambridge University Press, 1995).  She tries
valiantly to place PVM within his context, and does something useful in that
respect, as I recall.

No poisson d'Avril by her or by the journal; but PVM had his tongue in
his cheek all right. The debate between 'Terrentius' (sic, a frequent
Irish spelling; but remember how Varro is always working his _nomen_ in)
and 'Galbungus' on the vocative of _ego_ recalls the debate in Gellius
14.5 on the vocative of egregius.

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Re: VIRGIL: More Vergils

1999-09-22 Thread Greg Farnum
Backing up a bit, the correspondent from Australia was mistaken when he said
that the first instance of Virgil as a first name in the US occurred with the
composer Virgil Thompson.  Not true.  The name has been used in the US for
generations and, Virgil Thompson notwithstanding, (dare I say it here?)
typically has rural, country bumpkin, or even hillbilly connotations.

Greg Farnum
Rochester Hills, Michigan


Dr Helen Conrad wrote:

 And let us not forget Vergil of Salzburg whose discussions of the antipodes
 made poor Boniface  so nervous.
 Helen Conard-O'Briain

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Re: VIRGIL: Another Virgilius Maro?

1999-09-22 Thread David Wilson-Okamura
At 04:32 PM 9/22/99 +, you wrote:
   As far as I know P.Virgilius Maro Grammaticus of Tolouse  is the only 
one to have adopted the whole of Virgil's name ! I have only ever come 
across a few men named Virgil:  (1)Vergilius Romanus, a friend of Pliny 
the Younger; (2)Virgilianus, the son of Vibius Sequester (the author of 
de Fluminibus  Fontibus Lacubus etc which preserved a line by Cornelius 
Gallus on the river Hypanis);(3) one of Alcuin's fellow scholars who 
adopted it as a pen name ;(4) Polydore Vergil; and its American use as a 
first name is exemplified by (5) the composer Virgil Thomson, and (7) a 
television character in McHale's Navy. Are there any others, I wonder?

Let us not forget Virgil Gus Grissom, who unintentionally scuttled his
Mercury space capsule in the Atlantic (or so it says in _The Right Stuff_).

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Re: VIRGIL: More Vergils

1999-09-22 Thread RANDI C ELDEVIK
Yes, I have to acknowledge that those hillbilly associations do exist, in
the U.S. context; the same for the name Homer, unfortunately.  But I don't
know how that came about, and I wish I knew.  Homer and Virgil are my two
favorite poets, but if I had wanted to name my son in honor of one or both
of them, my husband would have rebelled--understandably, given the U.S.
ambience.
 What's the British attitude?  Doesn't anyone there give the name
Homer or Virgil to their son?  After all, one meets Englishmen named
Terence, etc.  
Randi Eldevik
Oklahoma State University


On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Greg Farnum wrote:

 Backing up a bit, the correspondent from Australia was mistaken when he said
 that the first instance of Virgil as a first name in the US occurred with the
 composer Virgil Thompson.  Not true.  The name has been used in the US for
 generations and, Virgil Thompson notwithstanding, (dare I say it here?)
 typically has rural, country bumpkin, or even hillbilly connotations.
 
 Greg Farnum
 Rochester Hills, Michigan
 
 
 Dr Helen Conrad wrote:
 
  And let us not forget Vergil of Salzburg whose discussions of the antipodes
  made poor Boniface  so nervous.
  Helen Conard-O'Briain
 
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Re: VIRGIL: Another Virgilius Maro?

1999-09-22 Thread Greg Farnum
I must apologize to Peter from Perth, he DID NOT claim that Virgil Thompson
was the first.  I plead a hasty and furtive reading at work as my extenuating
circumstance.  Still, the discussion is an interesting one; and yes, the name
Homer, when pinned on an American, is just as hayseed as Virgil.

Greg Farnum


Jim O'Hara wrote:

 . and its American use as a
 first name is exemplified by (5) the composer Virgil Thomson, and (7) a
 television character in McHale's Navy. Are there any others, I wonder?
 
 Best wishes
 Peter JVD BRYANT
 Perth
 Western Australia
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Nine major-league baseball players, eight born 1894-1917, and one in the
 20's, have been named Virgil:
 From http://www.totalbaseball.com/
   Virgil Abernathy
   Virgil Barnes
   Virgil Cheeves
   Virgil Davis
   Virgil Garriott
   Virgil Garvin
   Virgil Jester
   Thomas Virgil Red Stallcup
   Virgil Trucks

 Jim O'Hara   James J. O'Hara
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Re: VIRGIL: Another Virgilius Maro?

1999-09-22 Thread Hans Zimmermann
James Butrica schrieb:
  Message forwarded by moderator follows. 
 
 From: F. Heberlein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:08:46 +1
 
  Does someone know about a philosopher or grammarian
  called « Virgilius Maro » who was living in the 7th
  century? I would like to read something about this
  author, his life, his works.
 
 This is Vergilius Maro Grammaticus, famous for his claim to have
 attended in his youth  a 13 days dispute on the correct vocative of ego
 (now and then i ask our undergrads the 'correct' solution, and more
 than often i get replies like o ege ...).
 

 Under what circumstances would one use a vocative form of the 1st-person
 singular pronoun? And please don't keep us in suspense: which form did VMG
 regard as correct, and which were the competing forms?

yes, funny indeed, but let's remember the Greek neighbour form: 
Odysseias e (book 5), 299: ô moi egô deilos ... 

grusz, hansz
http://home.t-online.de/home/03581413454/sprachen.htm

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Re: VIRGIL: Another Virgilius Maro?

1999-09-22 Thread Jim O'Hara
. and its American use as a
first name is exemplified by (5) the composer Virgil Thomson, and (7) a
television character in McHale's Navy. Are there any others, I wonder?

Best wishes
Peter JVD BRYANT
Perth
Western Australia
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Nine major-league baseball players, eight born 1894-1917, and one in the
20's, have been named Virgil:
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edu, RANDI C ELDEVIK [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Yes, I have to acknowledge that those hillbilly associations do exist, in
the U.S. context; the same for the name Homer, unfortunately.  But I don't
know how that came about, and I wish I knew.  Homer and Virgil are my two
favorite poets, but if I had wanted to name my son in honor of one or both
of them, my husband would have rebelled--understandably, given the U.S.
ambience.
 What's the British attitude?  Doesn't anyone there give the name
Homer or Virgil to their son?  After all, one meets Englishmen named
Terence, etc.

Can't say I've ever come across or heard of a British 'Homer' or
'Virgil', high, low, or middle class.

Leofranc Holford-Strevens
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Re: VIRGIL: More Vergils

1999-09-22 Thread Simon Cauchi
 What's the British attitude?  Doesn't anyone there give the name
Homer or Virgil to their son?  After all, one meets Englishmen named
Terence, etc.

To someone like me brought up in the UK, Homer and Virgil used as forenames
sound distinctly American -- I didn't know they had a hillbilly ring. In
England I don't think Terence is taken to allude to the Roman playwright.
Nor Horace to the poet. I've never heard of anyone called Plautus or
Catullus. I'm sure I've heard or read of a dog called Virgil (or perhaps it
was Vergil) but I can't remember where. In Malta there was (is?) a fashion
for Greek names, e.g. Sir Themistocles Zammit.

Back to work! (I'm editing a book on a field of study I didn't even know
existed -- the constitutional law of revolutions. Cases cited come from
Restoration England, the secessionist South, UDI Rhodesia, Grenada, Fiji,
Queensland, etc., but so far nothing from ancient Rome, unless you count a
quotation from De Civ. Dei, IV, 4.)

Simon Cauchi, Hamilton, New Zealand
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Re: VIRGIL: More Vergils

1999-09-22 Thread Caroline Butler
I knew a cat called Virgil once, but I don't suppose that counts.

Caroline Butler
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