I will be interested as well if anyone knows why Phaer calls the Tyrii
"Moors." Carthage in North Africa was settled ca. 800 BCE by Phoenicians
(Tyrii?), and North Africans were later known collectively Moors. Was
Phaer being anachronistic?
Jameela Lares
Department of English
University of Southern Mississippi
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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, David Wilson-Okamura wrote:
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> More likely its Aen. 1.423-36 --
>
> Instant ardentes Tyrii, pars ducere muros,
> Molirique arcem, & manibus subuoluere saxa,
> Pars aptare locum tecto, & concludere sulco.
>
> -- which Phaer (1558) translates as
>
> The Moores with courage went to worke, some vnder burdens grones:
> Some at the wals and towrs with hands were tumbling vp the stones.
> Some measurd out a place to build their mansion house within:
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