To: wideawake
29 posted on
04/13/2007 7:49:36 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
("His mother said to the servants, 'Do whatever He tells you.' ")
To: Tax-chick
That should be, “O Tempo, fuge!!!!!” (please)
32 posted on
04/13/2007 7:59:11 AM PDT by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: Tax-chick; AnAmericanMother
Actually, it would be:
o tempus, fuge.
Tempus is a third declension noun (tempus, temporis) and forms its vocative identically to the nominative - hence o tempus.
To: Tax-chick
Tempus fugit!Watch your phraseology!
[Obscure theatrical reference.]
470 posted on
05/03/2007 1:56:53 PM PDT by
HKMk23
(We are good, not because we are not tempted, but because we are tempted yet choose to be good.)
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