Re: OT: First text in Agsem

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Ed Heil wrote:

> That's just because if you do the _sortes virgilianae_ it always says
> something that you can interpret as "Rome will conquer the world,"
> whereas if you do the _sortes ovidianae_ it comes up with, "your
> nephew is boinking the chambermaid."
LOL -- yeah, well, sometimes your nephew *is* boinking the chambermaid.


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> "In the labyrinth of the alphabet the truth is hidden. It is one
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> Patrick Dunn wrote:
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> > On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Ed Heil wrote:
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> > > Well, then he had no clue, because Ovid's Metamorphoses isn't an
> > > imitation of Homer! ;)
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> > I suspect he was talkin' about Virgil.  Ovid, as you well know, you cheeky
> > boy, wasn't considered a "serious" poet.
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