<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">Hello, </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Do listmembers know anything about the illustrated manuscript Holkham MS 311? Details from it are featured on the front cover of Wilkinson's Georgics and Lee's Eclogues (both Penguin). Anything will be appreciated - date, location, publications.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Paul Roche</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">UQ</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> </x-html>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Oct 16 14:47:52 2001 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Oct 16 18:45:20 2001 Received: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by wilsonwork.com (8.11.6) id f9GIVs124073; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 18:31:54 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: wilsonwork.com: wilsonwk set sender to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f X-Originating-IP: [169.226.210.170] From: "Dinali Abeysekera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 18:31:45 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Oct 2001 18:31:45.0790 (UTC) FILETIME=[CF5589E0:01C15670] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-UIDL: ;&`"!h_O!!?O&#!$)Y!!
<x-html><html><div style='background-color:'><DIV>I was wondering why Virigil wasn' proud of the Aeneid. Why did he want it burned? It couldn't have been merely because it wasn't finished...</DIV></div><br clear=all><hr>Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at <a href='http://go.msn.com/bql/hmtag_itl_EN.asp'>http://explorer.msn.com</a><br></html> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 </x-html>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Oct 17 12:32:56 2001 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Oct 17 14:50:55 2001 Received: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by wilsonwork.com (8.11.6) id f9HEnnp05703; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 14:49:49 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: wilsonwork.com: wilsonwk set sender to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:49:15 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: David Wilson-Okamura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: VIRGIL: why Virgil wanted to burn his poem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-UIDL: T?O"!G~<"!VQV"!IA""! << message forwarded by listowner, David Wilson-Okamura >> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 08:42:54 -0400 From: April Spratley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 Dinali Abeysekera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering why Virigil wasn' proud of the Aeneid. Why did he want > it burned? It couldn't have been merely because it wasn't finished... Virgil wasn't proud of the Aeneid because it wasn't perfect/finished. Virgil was a true perfectionist. The Georgics took him seven years to finish (it reallyisn't all that long of a poem). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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