Re: Latin (was Language universal?)
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, February 10, 2001, 23:33 |
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On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, John Cowan wrote:
>Dan Jones scripsit:
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>> O, Catulle! Nates pilosas, fili, non potes asse venditare!
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>Or in the spirit of P. Brown:
'Ere, I represent that remark!
>O Catullus! Hairy ears, son, don't prevent you from selling your ass.
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>> Personally, I prefer Martial. He's nastier:
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>> Versus scribere posse te disertos
>> Affirmas, Laberi; quid ergo non vis?
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>Laberius, you say you *can* write your dissertation, so why don't you
>get on it?
Having just scraped through the disasterous battle of Bubula City,
Martial, the well known Roman General, wrote concerning the quality of
the conscripts sent by Col. Liberius of Staff HQ: "I've written you
several times about those deserters! I swear, Liberius, what the hell
did you see [in them]!?" (De Bello Gastronomico, Liber vvij)
Padraic.