To: Lonesome in Massachussets
This thread is useless without translations.
13 posted on
06/22/2008 6:55:55 AM PDT by
DeLaine
(Anything that offends 3 people must be banned. The 200 million just have to suck it up.)
To: DeLaine
“Qualis artifex pereo” is a little hard to translate. Purportedly Nero's dying words as the mutinying Praetorian were closing in on him.
One translation, “What [or such] an artist dies in me!” It reveals his character as a self-absorbed dilettante.
To: DeLaine
15 posted on
06/22/2008 7:35:58 AM PDT by
ErnBatavia
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