Re: OT: First text in Agsem
| From: | Ed Heil <edheil@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 4, 2000, 2:59 |
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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."
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Patrick Dunn wrote:
> 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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> >