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From: Leofranc Holford-Strevens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: VIRGIL: Aeneid Jokes
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Indeed; there is a parallel in Horace's _recusatio_ to Augustus at
_Epist._ 2.1/250-7: I
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Simon Cauchi
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More humour in Vergil invitus, regina, tuo de litore cessi (Bk 6)
reference to Catullus' Lock of Berenice invitus, regina, tuo de cervice
cessi, a singularly incongruous intertextualism at a singularly inapposite
moment.
I have
Many thanks to Neven for Nicholas Modrussiensiensis; but if I may expand
on my own dissertation, where I had occasion to comment on 'facetiis' at
Gellius 2. 23. 3 'ita Graecarum, quas aemulari nequiuerunt, facetiis
atque luminibus obsolescunt' [i.e. Roman comedies are not a patch on the
Greek
incongruous intertextualism at a singularly inapposite
moment.
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Subject:VIRGIL: Aeneid Jokes
Aeneid 6.413 ingentem Aenean prompted Austin to write: Virgil
More humour in Vergil invitus, regina, tuo de litore cessi (Bk 6)
reference to Catullus' Lock of Berenice invitus, regina, tuo de cervice
cessi, a singularly incongruous intertextualism at a singularly inapposite
moment.
I have always thought invitus, regina to be as bad as W. S. Gilbert's a
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, James M. Pfundstein wrote:
I gave a paper the other day on the Third Eclogue where I mentioned
Horace's description of Vergil's early work as molle atque facetum
(Satires 1.10.44), and discussed how some scholars have resisted
translating facetum as witty (its obvious
