Subject: my speech
From: [email-masked]
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 05:32:53 -0400

I'm citing you in my speech, in relation to Virgil....

Here's the section in which your name occurs.  If you have any problem with what I've said, let me know immediately.

Moreover, Moscadoes not inform his audience that his use of the classical sources isselective, excluding an abundance of exculpatory evidence directly relevant toCarthaginian religion.   Instead, he defines his principles ofrelevance by saying, “We must limit the literary evidence to those texts thatdeal with child sacrifice and that locate such sacrifice specifically in thePhoenician-Punic world”.   
By imposing theselimitations, he allows himself to omit Virgil who of course writes specificallyof Carthage inhis Aeneid and in Book 6, 6.426-9, describesthe antechamber in the underworld designated strictly for infants.  As discussed by Virgil scholar SalvatoreConte of queendido.org, this separate precinct is an underworld mirror of the child-cemeteriesfound at Carthage and other Punic sites, and Virgil is clear that it was fate,i.e. natural causes, that was the cause of their premature deaths.