Re: CHAT Achilles & the tortoise (was: Two questions about Esperanto)

Quoting John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

> Andreas Johansson scripsit:
>
> > What are Calends, anyway?
>
> The first day of each month in the Roman calendar:  for details, see
> http://www.tondering.dk/claus/cal/node3.html#SECTION00371000000000000000 .
> The Calends, Nones, and Ides were peculiar to the Roman calendar (the
> word "calendar" itself is from Calendae) and unknown to the Greeks, so
> "on the Greek Calends" means "never", an expression popularized by the
> Emperor Augustus.
Ah. For some reason it didn't occur to me that "Calends" could be an
anglicization of _Calendae_ (or _Kalendae_, as my Latin dictionary spells it).

                                                          Andreas

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