From mcmahon@maple.lemoyne.edu Sun Sep 17 13:52:29 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id NAA58896 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:52:28 -0700 Received: from MAPLE.lemoyne.edu (maple.lemoyne.edu [192.231.122.100]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id NAA13901 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:52:27 -0700 Received: from maple.lemoyne.edu by maple.lemoyne.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #33655) id <01JUAC4YJLWW001F60@maple.lemoyne.edu> for CLASSICS@U.WASHINGTON.EDU; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 16:55:34 EDT Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 16:55:34 -0400 (EDT) From: John McMahon Subject: Re: pigeon hole legend To: CLASSICS@U.WASHINGTON.EDU Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Scripsit MS: > I had thought that the length of "books" was determined by the > reasonable lenght of one papyrus roll. That is, that too long a roll > was jus too unwieldy. A variation of Jim's explanation. According to M. Santirocco (*Unity and Design in Horace's Odes*. Chapel Hill: 1986, p. 184, n. 51): "... the papyrus roll and the literary book are not to be equated: the physical capacity of the former could exceed the length arbitrarily fixed for the latter." Santirocco references J. Van Sickle, "The Book Roll" in *Arethusa* 13 (1980): 5-42. John McMahon Le Moyne College mcmahon@maple.lemoyne.edu .