Pet Peeves (I'm using the poetic plural)
Recently, in my Latin class (which usually consists of two people sitting in the hallway right outside the Latin room ^_^), we went over there part after the storm where Aeneas looks out over the sea to see if he can see any of his comrades lost at sea. (This is becoming more fun to type than I had expected.) Anyway, one of the guys he's looking for is Antheus, who died, I'm assuming. However, as Ian and I were translating the part about Antheus, Ian interjected, "He had it coming." He often interjects really bizarre things while we're going over Latin, but there wasn't anything to imply that Antheus had it coming. Ian proceeded to insist that Antheus MUST have had it coming, said that I needed to read between the lines to find it, and even wrote "Antheus had it coming" between the lines transliterated into Greek.
Anyway, I decided to see if I could find anything on the wonderful internet about Antheus (but didn't find any information of use.) While searching, I went to Wikipedia, but while taking a detour to the Nisus and Euryalus article (^_^) I began to notice that quite a number of people can't seem to spell Vergil's name correctly. I ended up changing a few 'i's to 'e's on a couple of Wikipedia articles.
It's Publius Vergilius Maro. Therefore, if one is to shorten his name, then it makes far more sense to call him Vergil than whatever nonsensical name some people are calling him.
Most people would probably think that I should just get over it, but I expect it to bother me for the rest of my life. (Unless, of course, people wise up and realize there's only one i in Vergil, and only 2 in Vergilius.) Hey, the Oxford Guide to Style has it right, but not Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergil#Virgil.27s_name_in_English
Surely you don't want people confusing Publius Vergilius Maro with Virgilius Maro Grammaticus, do you?
Anyway, I decided to see if I could find anything on the wonderful internet about Antheus (but didn't find any information of use.) While searching, I went to Wikipedia, but while taking a detour to the Nisus and Euryalus article (^_^) I began to notice that quite a number of people can't seem to spell Vergil's name correctly. I ended up changing a few 'i's to 'e's on a couple of Wikipedia articles.
It's Publius Vergilius Maro. Therefore, if one is to shorten his name, then it makes far more sense to call him Vergil than whatever nonsensical name some people are calling him.
Most people would probably think that I should just get over it, but I expect it to bother me for the rest of my life. (Unless, of course, people wise up and realize there's only one i in Vergil, and only 2 in Vergilius.) Hey, the Oxford Guide to Style has it right, but not Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergil#Virgil.27s_name_in_English
Surely you don't want people confusing Publius Vergilius Maro with Virgilius Maro Grammaticus, do you?