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"David Matthews" <dmatthews03@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My shower curtain has inscriptions in Latin - Classy eh!
Dave in Toronto


Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?
Kat Richardson


Is that a very large toga that I see you wearing?
Ellooon

Is that a (book) in your toga or are you just glad to see me?
(boy, my Latin has deteriorated, not that it was very good, to begin
with....)

--
Kat Richardson


Thanks for the translation - I was trying to work it out with a
Latin/English dictionary - My own previous Latin was limited to "Sic
transit
Gloria" which I knew translated as "Gloria was sick on the train."

Dave in Toronto


And I rememberr the first line from one of my Latin books humpteen years
ago.

Gallia est omni divisa in partes tress (or some such)

All Gall is divided into three parts.

Oh, Latin is a language,
As dead as it can be.
First it killed the Romans -
And now it's killing me!


The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who remember the
immortal opening line of Caesar's Gallic War as "Omnia Gallia in tres partes
divisa est," and those who remember it as "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes
tres".

GALLIA est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgae, aliam
Aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, nostra Galli appellantur. Hi
omnes lingua, institutis, legibus inter se differunt. Gallos ab Aquitanis
Garumna flumen, a Belgis Matrona et Sequana dividit. Horum omnium fortissimi
sunt Belgae, propterea quod a cultu atque humanitate provinciae longissime
absunt, minimeque ad eos mercatores saepe commeant atque ea quae ad
effeminandos animos pertinent important, proximique sunt Germanis, qui trans
Rhenum incolunt, quibuscum continenter bellum gerunt. Qua de causa Helvetii
quoque reliquos Gallos virtute praecedunt, quod fere cotidianis proeliis cum
Germanis contendunt, cum aut suis finibus eos prohibent aut ipsi in eorum
finibus bellum gerunt. [Eorum una, pars, quam Gallos obtinere dictum est,
initium capit a flumine Rhodano, continetur Garumna flumine, Oceano, finibus
Belgarum, attingit etiam ab Sequanis et Helvetiis flumen Rhenum, vergit ad
septentriones. Belgae ab extremis Galliae finibus oriuntur, pertinent ad
inferiorem partem fluminis Rheni, spectant in septentrionem et orientem
solem. Aquitania a Garumna flumine ad Pyrenaeos montes et eam partem Oceani
quae est ad Hispaniam pertinet; spectat inter occasum solis et
septentriones.]

--

Stanley L. Moore
"The belief in a supernatural
source of evil is not necessary;
men alone are quite capable
of every wickedness."
Joseph Conrad


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