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 back to find a

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

VIRGIL: 5-word hexameters

2001-11-09 Thread David Wilson-Okamura
message forwarded by listowner, David Wilson-Okamura From: Tim Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 21:48:29 + I have been re-reading Aeneid 8.306-341 and was struck by the 6 instances of 5-word hexameters contained within this passage alone. Seeing that I could not entirely