I just participated with my class in a Vergil contest and we had to translate a part of the Aeneis (about Aeneas visiting Euander) and we won!!! We won a lot...
Laurence M.
ninitje@...
May 12, 2001 7:47 pm
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In a message dated 5/12/01 3:48:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Laurence et al, Yes cool. Totally. And you better bet that those of us who did not get to ...
Cellarpub@...
May 12, 2001 10:46 pm
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[Please forgive the starting point - this message does get round to Virgil in the end!] ... One advantage of CE/BCE is that it makes us think about the...
Daniel Trambaiolo
dtrambaiolo@...
May 13, 2001 2:23 pm
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Hello!! ... Sorry, I don't know what you mean by 'an AP'...??? ... From book 8.314-336 That's when Latinus, ruler of Laurentum wants Aeneas to marry his...
Laurence M.
ninitje@...
May 13, 2001 4:12 pm
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Laurence, Don't you dare apologize for your English. You communicate far better than most of the American young people I used to teach. You do extremely well...
Cellarpub@...
May 13, 2001 10:30 pm
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Hi!! I never even heard of something like an Advanced Placement... maybe in the US, but not in Belgium... I once mailed to an American teacher and she ...
Laurence M.
ninitje@...
May 14, 2001 11:00 am
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In a message dated 5/13/01 10:31:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... I apologize for not responding sooner to your good letter. I was hoping the AD/BC/CE thing...
Cellarpub@...
May 16, 2001 12:58 am
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Dear Laurence (et al), This will probably raise the ire of any American academics on this list, but the biggest single thing we are facing in Education in this...
Cellarpub@...
May 16, 2001 1:29 am
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Since an interest was expressed a few weeks ago for Latin Internet links, here is one I ran into a few minutes ago quite by accident....I was looking for...
Cellarpub@...
May 17, 2001 10:23 am
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Every day our newspaper has a quote-of-the-day. Today's was allegedly from "Virgil, Roman poet", with no further attribution. It went "Steep thyself in a...
Jon Sutton
jws@...
May 17, 2001 2:00 pm
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In a message dated 5/17/01 10:02:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Rings no bells here....Georgics, maybe...Ecologues...sounds like it might be a agricultural...
Cellarpub@...
May 17, 2001 4:03 pm
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I'm looking for the original latin text of: "Easy and swift is the descent into hell" All I know is that it is from a work by Vergil, but I don't know which...
vyper001@...
Aug 16, 2001 5:20 am
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It's from Book VI of the Aeneid, where Aeneas goes down to the Underworld, enabled by the Golden Bough and led by the Sybil. This book of the Aeneid is the...
TomD3456@...
Aug 16, 2001 6:40 am
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Ooops- Sorry for the following typos in my answer to vyper's query: - "lanua Ditis" should read "ianua Ditis" - "hic opus, hic labor est" should read "hoc...
TomD3456@...
Aug 16, 2001 4:09 pm
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Thankyou, Tom for your super speedy reply. I did look on the 'net, but
really had no idea where to start.
Vyper......
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Vyper
vyper001@...
Aug 17, 2001 3:15 am
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Am wondering about the correct spelling of Virgil. I've also seen it
spelt as Vergil. Are both correct and interchangable? Or is one right
and the other wrong....
Vyper
vyper001@...
Aug 19, 2001 5:20 am
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In a message dated 8/19/01 1:21:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... There is a great deal of gentle argument on the subject. In Britain most write VIRGIL, while...
Cellarpub@...
Aug 19, 2001 9:56 am
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... Strictly, Vergil is the more correct, since the Latin is P. Vergilius Maro. But the spelling Virgil is more widely used in the English-speaking world....
Bruce McMenomy
mcmenomy1@...
Aug 20, 2001 5:40 am
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Hi, I am preparing a short presentation on Vergil for a lit class on 9/23 and am having a little problem finding biographical info on Vergil. I would like to...
Rob, There's a very good book on Virgil called "The Cambridge Companion to Virgil" edited by Charles Martindale and published by (who else?) Cambridge ...
In a message dated 8/29/2002 7:37:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... Rob, You Might want to take a look at The Late Brooks Otis Monumental, VERGIL: A STUDY IN...
Cellarpub@...
Aug 30, 2002 12:25 am
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I just subscribed to this list the other day (in preparation for some revision for forthcoming exams...). Debate on the literary success (from ancient and...
Daniel Johnson
daniel@...
Aug 30, 2002 1:48 am
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In a message dated 8/29/2002 9:50:09 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... A good starting point might be found in the volume I suggested earlier: VIRGIL: A STUDY IN...
Cellarpub@...
Aug 30, 2002 2:05 am
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thanks for your response. I will look into the book. I am still hoping to find some images that I can use. Are you aware if there is any bust of Vergil. If he...
Try Nupedia, under Vergil. ... and am having a little problem finding biographical info on Vergil. I would like to find some historical info and possibly some...
James Allan Evans
jaevans@...
Sep 1, 2002 7:30 am
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Note from list owner: The following message was stuck in the "moderated" queue since October. Sorry for the delay in posting. Lance Fletcher ...
I'm not to sure but francincence, like what they gave to Jesus, was a very expensive fragrance worn by men like cologone. Though I am not completly sure. ... ...
One use of frankincense at the time, according to a sermon I read yesterday from a minister friend of mine, was in preparing bodies for burial. (Apparently the...
TomD3456@...
Dec 23, 2002 5:22 pm
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... There is a famous mosaic, reproduced as a fronticepiece in many of Page's school editions. ("Virgil and the Muses of History and Tradegy") The Mosaic was...
A slow reading of Plato's Timaeus is just now getting started on my plato-timaeus list. If you would like to join it, you may subscribe by sending email to ...
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