06-05-2006, 12:03 PM
In Masada they found fragments of an papyrus. Each side contains an incomplete hexameter verse in Latin.
MASADA II No. 721
On the front page they read:
[An]na [ s ]or[o]r quae me susp[ensam insomnia terrent....]
This is Virgil, Aen. 4. 9, the beginnig of Didos first speech.
On the backside they read only:
]des titubantia...ri
So they didn t know the context, in Virgil it occurs only once, also in Horace, in Ovid seventeen times, Manilius once, Columella once, Lucan twice, Silius Italicus four times and so on....
A writing tablet from Vindolanda containing Virgil Aen. 9.. 473 written ca 100 A.D. Bowman and Thomas 1986, 1986, 122, 1987, 130ff
INTEREA PAVIDAM VOLITANS PINNA
http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/4DLink2 ... yEnglish=1
Bye
Malko
__________
Christian
MASADA II No. 721
On the front page they read:
[An]na [ s ]or[o]r quae me susp[ensam insomnia terrent....]
This is Virgil, Aen. 4. 9, the beginnig of Didos first speech.
On the backside they read only:
]des titubantia...ri
So they didn t know the context, in Virgil it occurs only once, also in Horace, in Ovid seventeen times, Manilius once, Columella once, Lucan twice, Silius Italicus four times and so on....
A writing tablet from Vindolanda containing Virgil Aen. 9.. 473 written ca 100 A.D. Bowman and Thomas 1986, 1986, 122, 1987, 130ff
INTEREA PAVIDAM VOLITANS PINNA
http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/4DLink2 ... yEnglish=1
Bye
Malko
__________
Christian
