Re: VIRGIL: 5-word hexameters

2001-12-06 Thread Leofranc Holford-Strevens
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Wilson-Okamura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes ><< message forwarded by listowner, David Wilson-Okamura >> > >From: "Tim Saunders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 21:48:29 + > This came in when I was about to leave the country; I hoped when I came ba

Re: VIRGIL: 5-word hexameters

2001-11-11 Thread Emmanuel.Plantade
  Patrick Roper a *crit : Apropos of this thread, could I ask about the current view on how Virgil should be pronounced.  I simply read it the way I was taught Latin at school in England in the 1950s, but am aware that the language is pronounced in all sorts of different ways and that what shapes

RE: VIRGIL: 5-word hexameters

2001-11-10 Thread Patrick Roper
Apropos of this thread, could I ask about the current view on how Virgil should be pronounced. I simply read it the way I was taught Latin at school in England in the 1950s, but am aware that the language is pronounced in all sorts of different ways and that what shapes up in my imagination would

Re: VIRGIL: 5-word hexameters

2001-11-10 Thread Hans Zimmermann
Yes, Euander's speech de originibus Latii. This part has also some of the rare and heavy sounding spondiacus-lines: 8,341 and (so near!) 345 - unbreakable old names at the end of those lines. Some antiquity, maybe Ennius or some ritual texts of old Latium: alliterations (typical for ritual tex