Re: Passover/Easter (was: Italogallic in Zera,and other

Raymond Brown scripsit:

> >I _won't_ retort with my argument that Jesus
> >Christ, only begotten son of the LORD God was actually a pagan himself.
>
> But you *have* retorted thus!
This is "praeteritio", IIRC:

"I omit, as too out of date, the case of Gaius Servilius Ahala, who
killed Spurius Maelius with his own hand for plotting revolution."
        (Cic. Catil. 1.1, freely)

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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