Re: Classic, Normal, and Vulgar Lingo

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Raymond Brown wrote:

> As they were carried along (by lower-grade slaves, of course) on their
>litters, they might well have a slave/ freedman trooting alongside reading
>away to them.
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>Indeed, unlike us moderns, they didn't have to drive the vehicle - the
>"engine" did that, and the steering too!  They could, if they wished, just
>pull the curtains across to cut out the distractions around them and just
>listen to the "tape".
Reminds me of the opening scenes of the "Aquiliad", where the Greek
slave is reading to his young Roman master, while they're travelling
in his fathers steam powered automobile to see a crucifiction.

Padraic.

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>Ray.
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>A mind which thinks at its own expense
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