Serpent&Flame TK's guidingQuestions2012.pdf - Episcopal Academy

introduced in negative terms, horrendum visu, visa nefas. Furthermore, despite the similarity of the event,Vergil uses no vocabulary in common.35. According to Knox, is the sustained image of the snake something that Vergil intended? impossible to know36. What does Knox examine snake passages in Vergil’s earlier works? To establish a pattern of certain prhaseswhich V. uses specific of serpents which he then reuses in passages of the Aeneid where no real snake is present.37. Translate: Apparet domus intus et atria longa patescunt. the home within appears and the long atrium lays open.What final point is Knox trying to make? That the richness of Vergil’s language invite infinite intrepretation.