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From: Jackie Brown< >
Subject: Re: Latin quotations
Date: 5 Dec 1998 22:04:48 -0800


Tristan Tornado ,

Why don't you give us all a break. You are obviously an uneducated
jerk who is trying to be someone you are not.Why don't you keep your
antics in the beloved little ghetto where you belong and leave us
alone to conduct serious research.

---Tristan Tornado <> wrote:
>
>
>
> You had no choice but to take Latin ?
> When I was in school they didn't even want to teach us English. They
> sat us down and told us there was no books so we all just talked or
> whatever while the teacher took a nap.But I ain't complaining cause I
> could've done it myself, I just didn't want to then.
> So now I am learning this stuff mixed in with a little
> medieval genealogy and history to make it more interesting.
> To keep this on topic : Do you think William the Conqueror would've
> liked the Chicago Bulls ?
>
> Tristan
> ---John Steele Gordon <> wrote:
> >
> > Tristan Tornado wrote:
> >
> > > I am turning in my Latin homework.
> > > fortum posce animum = the animal passes the fort
> > > no, it's- a lively posse's way
> > > or- build a lively fort while passing the
animal.
> > > One of those.
> >
> > Well I see it's the silly season. Since I'm over fifty, and thus had
> no
> > choice but to take Latin, I'll help out the younger members. "Fortum
> > posce animum" is a quote from the poet Juvenal (c. 55- c. 127). It
> means
> > "Pray for a strong will [or soul]."
> >
> > The word "posse," by the way, is already a Latin word. It comes from
> the
> > legal phrase "posse comitatus," meaning "the power of the county."
> In the
> > Middle Ages a sheriff could summon every able-bodied man over 15
as a
> > posse comitatus to meet an emergency. The institution disappeared
long
> > ago, but the law never dies, so there it was, just the thing for
19th
> > century sheriffs in the American West to use when they had to head
off
> > the bad guys at the pass.
> >
> > John Steele Gordon (20th generation descendant of a member of a
posse
> > comitatus, just to keep on-topic).
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Are you grading on a curve ?
> > > Tristan
> > >
> > > ---"Barrie J. Wright" <> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > OK, Tristan and others,
> > > > Here's a lurker with a smattering of Latin to help you out.
> > > > No guarantees, as it's now 38 years since my last last lesson.
> > > > DSH doesn't use many different phrases really.
> > > >
> > > > Be thankful there's no fluent writer of it --but other languages
> > > > are allowed on the list, so Spencer is centric here, rather than
> > > eccentric.
> > > >
> > > > vide infra = see below
> > > > pro sapienta = for wisdom or knowledge [take your pick]
> > > > pax vobiscum = peace be with you
> > > > lux et veritas = light and truth
> > > >
> > > > For homework:
> > > >
> > > > fortem posce animum = something about strength and the soul
> > > >
> > > > So you see, DSH is actually more polite in Latin than in
English,
> > > but I always
> > > > love his sharp-edged final quotations.
> > > >
> > > > Apologies for errors, but I wouldn't be the only one to mislead
> > > people
> > > > on this list..
> > > >
> > > > Good advice for all:
> > > >
> > > > fortiter in re, suaviter in modo = acting forcibly, yet in a
> gentle
> > > manner [OED]
> > > >
> > > > Joy to The World
> > > > Barrie Wright in Adelaide, South Australia.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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> >
> >
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