5.0576 Responses (6/150)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 13 Jan 1992 22:07:17 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0576. Monday, 13 Jan 1992.

(1) Date: Mon, 06 Jan 92 10:38:42 EST (17 lines)
From: "David R. Chesnutt" <N330004@UNIVSCVM>
Subject: Re: 5.0532 Plutarch in the Colonies

(2) Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1992 21:39:12 EST (10 lines)
From: hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: RE: 5.0561 Misc. Queries and Responses

(3) Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1992 12:47:07 -0500 (34 lines)
From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin)
Subject: Where the hare lays (summary)

(4) Date: Sat, 21 Dec 91 16:48 EST (11 lines)
From: Mary_Whitlock_BLUNDELL@umail.umd.edu (mb169)
Subject: Tyrants and icons

(5) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 92 23:31:55 PST (13 lines)
From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Re: 5.0567 Sidney (Family) Books; Metaphors & Legends

(6) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 92 14:17:04 GMT (22 lines)
From: P.R.Williams@vme.glasgow.ac.uk
Subject: African Brotherhood League

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Date: Mon, 06 Jan 92 10:38:42 EST
From: "David R. Chesnutt" <N330004@UNIVSCVM>
Subject: Re: 5.0532 Plutarch in the Colonies (1/9)

"The Libraries of Colonial South Carolina" by Walter B. Edgar,
PhD diss., Univ of South Carolina, 1969, notes on p. 33: "Homer, Virgil
and Plutarch occurred with greater frequency in the original and in
translation than any other ancient's writings." Of the 2200 estate
inventories Edgar analyzed, only about 400 listed secular titles.
His appendix (p. 230) shows 18 copies of Plutarch's "Lives".
Our experience in editing the papers of Henry Laurens, active
Charleston, S.C., merchant-planter-politician from 1747 to 1792,
certainly indicates a culture familiar with the classical writers.
Classical allusions abound in the correspondence.

David Chesnutt
University of South Carolina
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Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1992 21:39:12 EST
From: hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: RE: 5.0561 Misc. Queries and Responses (5/88)

RE: Institut fuer Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim

I don't have a FAX number for this institute in my German FAX
telephone book, but the number for the BIBLIOGRAPHISCHES INSTITUT
(DUDEN) is 621-3901-389. They may have your number or relay your
message. HANS ROLLMANN.
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DR. HANS ROLLMANN; Associate Professor; Department of Religious
Studies; Memorial University of Newfoundland; St. John's, NF,
Canada, A1C 5S7; PHONE: 709-753-0045; FAX: 709-737-4569;
E-MAIL: hrollman@morgan.ucs.mun.ca; also: hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca;
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Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1992 12:47:07 -0500
From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin)
Subject: Where the hare lays (summary)

Deborah Leslie asked some time ago if I would give a summary of the
answers I received to my query of last fall re the (possibly
proverbial) "where the hare lays." Sorry for the delay, but here it
is at last.

I owe my first real lead to Dana Paramskas, who suggested
"ou le lievre cuvait," meaning "where the object of the chase could
be hidden," i.e., where the pot of gold was. Giles Hoyt then sent a
message saying that a proverb of the same sort existed in German: "wo
der Hasse liegt" = the discovery of information hitherto unknown, as
in a plot or cabal; he observed that Gryphius and Lessing used it in
several plays. Thomas Austenfeld (as well as -- off-line -- my
colleague Erika Rummel) both told me about another German saying, "Da
liegt der Hase im Pfeffer" = "that's where the problem is; if we
could only solve this we'd know." Gregory Bloomquist contributed the
information that one of his colleagues who knew something about
hunting lore told him that "unlike rabbits, who dig burrow, the hare
cannot; it can only lie on top of the ground, hidden by the grass."
David Shaw pointed out the phrase "hic jacet lepus" in Rabelais, and
sent me to Cotgrave's dictionary (1611) which defines the phrase much
as above. It was Michel Pierssens who traced the phrase closer to its
origin: in the medieval Latin "his jacet lepus" meaning, he writes,
"here's the crux of the problem. It might have been borrowed from
earlier Latin sources of course. It was used in erudite disputations
and, I think, in juridical debates." Pierssens cites a reference in
Marivaux. I am immensely grateful to the participants in HUMANIST and
C18-L who shared their knowledge with me on this small, but to me very
illuminating point. Germaine Warkentin
<warkent@epas.utoronto.ca>

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Date: Sat, 21 Dec 91 16:48 EST
From: Mary_Whitlock_BLUNDELL@umail.umd.edu (mb169)
Subject: Tyrants and icons

Thanks to all who answered my queries on these subjects, especially those
who sent me private messages to which I was (for some reason) unable to
respond.

Mary Whitlock Blundell
mb169@umail.umd.edu

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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 92 23:31:55 PST
From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Re: 5.0567 Sidney (Family) Books; Metaphors & Legends (2/79)

For Germaine Warkenton

Have you checked with the Grolier Club in New York for
your sale catalog? it has the largest collection of
book auction and sales catalogues in the U.S., possibly
in the world.

Charles Faulhaber
UC Berkeley
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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 92 14:17:04 GMT
From: P.R.Williams@vme.glasgow.ac.uk
Subject: African Brotherhood League

africa-l@earn.brufpb,

amerstdy@earn.miamiu,

history@earn.irlearn,

humanist@earn.brownvm
Message-ID: <_7_Jan_92_14:17:04_A108E3@UK.AC.GLA.VME>

Could anyone tell me where I could get primary source material: speeches,
essays, etc. given by the leaders of this early twentieth century nationalist
movement. Furthermore, could someone, if possible, give me a book that deals
with the history, ideology, and composition of this organisation. Any help
at all will be gratefully received.

Yours,

Paul R. Williams