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To: wagglebee

I loved Latin. I should have majored in it when I could. I'd be telling high school students at this very moment that this translation of Ovid looks a lot like a "pony" I can find in any bookstore!

Nonne de novo eboraco venis?


617 posted on 03/05/2007 9:42:58 AM PST by Frank Sheed ("Shakespeare the Papist" by Fr. Peter Milward, S.J.)
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To: Frank Sheed

And of course, "nonne" is used when you ask a question already knowing the answer!


621 posted on 03/05/2007 9:46:35 AM PST by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: Frank Sheed
I'd be telling high school students at this very moment that this translation of Ovid looks a lot like a "pony" I can find in any bookstore!

Why would you want to be in a roomful of people who hate you? And the secure knowledge that twenty years later many of them will realize that what they learned in Latin come in helpful in everyday life is not a valid answer.

623 posted on 03/05/2007 9:47:32 AM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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