In a message dated 12/29/98 4:46:02 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I realize that there are many differing translations of Vergil's Aeneid
and other works, and would imagine that one has to be careful in
accepting translations as really being true to the native language's
In a message dated 12/9/98 4:41:48 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< My Franklin Day Planner "quote for the day" is, "They can because they
think they can." —Virgil. Can anyone confirm that this is a real quotation,
tell me where it occurs, and provide the Latin?
Thanks!
In a message dated 11/8/98 7:57:24 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I consider the famous passages in book six when Anchises shows Aeneas
the future Romans to be a parrallel [sic] to the shield scene. Here, as with
the shield, A. sees what will be the future of his line,
In a message dated 98-07-14 06:41:41 EDT, you write:
<< I recently had a conversation in which a friend said to me that he felt (i
can't bring myself to conjugate "to think" here) that Vergil subverts truth
in
order to "suck up" to Augustus and play to the nationalist sentiment. I
countered wi
