Or the delete button. Any sign of the nihilists who used to infest the list, or
have they all gone and got a life? (Sorry, I may be taking this too calmly
because my ISP sets up dummy addresses and deletes automatically all copies of
anything sent to them; in consequence I'm not getting the mass
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> probably
> LLL L L L L S S LSSL =
> L
> praed(am ad)-| -serva- |-bant. huc | undique | Troia | gaza
> =20
> granted - quite strange - the 5th foot is definitely a dactyl - Troia can b=
> e scanned this way
Because it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Caris Amicis: My AP Vergil class has found a line from Bk II, 763, that we
> cannot fit into dactylic hexameter.
>
> It reads:praedam adservabant. Huc undique Troia gaza
>
Any advice?
Remember that vowel + final m is elided before initial vowel o
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
> I am working on analysing paintings of Virgil in 18th and 19th =20
> century. They show him in a very special situation: reciting the =20
> Aeneid infront of Augustus and Octavia. This scene was painted quite =20
> a couple of times in the history of art.
> Now I
Shawn Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>The fact that Eclogue 4 sounds chillingly Christian has resulted in a
>lot of great poetry, but >I don't think any responsible modern scholar
>would would claim that Vergil was actually predicting the birth of
>Christ. [. . .] And part of the ambivalence
> My question is this: when did critics and poets start using the term
> "heroic couplet"? The online OED, which lets you search quotations, does
> not have an example of this phrase until 1857! As early as 1693, Dryden is
> using the phrase "heroic verse," but this is still very late, and he
> doe
