Re: CHAT: Latin (Re: Welcome Theodore Kloba)
| From: | Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 15, 1999, 17:14 |
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On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Paul Bennett wrote:
> John writes:
> >>>>>>
> Thomas R. Wier scripsit:
>
> > > ROMANES ITE DOMUM!
> >
> > Doesn't the soldier tell him the *correct* way to say it? Isn't
> > it "ROMANI ITE DOMUM!"
>
> The original is ROMANES EUNT DOMUS, more or less, "Romanes, they go the house".
> The correct final version is ROMANI ITE DOMUM, "Romans go home!"
> <<<<<<
>
> Mea cupla. Invita Minerva, ut aiunt. And all that cal.
>
> Praeterea censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
Hoc ille! (Though I think that whoever used to say it used to say
"ceterum", not "praeterea")
Irina
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