At 07:39 PM 6/5/2006 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
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On Monday 05 June 2006 19:26, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Have you ever had to try and read Cicero's Orations?
Hi Doug,
Don't tell me you read historical books, too? I haven't dug into Cicero's Orations, yet, but my current late night reading starts here: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plin.+Nat.+toc /snip/
Some 50 years ago I had to try and read that in the original language. I fully remember the page-full of single paragraph, sometimes single sentence. I never studied any more Latin. Cicero was a blow-hard, who thought he was above the common people. Most Romans would have had a great deal of difficulty understanding him. My mother had been a Latin student in college, with 8 years and a professor who taught in Latin, and she had trouble with Cicero, having been beyond him for quite some time. (I guess my professor, a Brother Anthony at Manhattan College understood it, but he was one of the most erudite men I ever met, may he rest in peace.) --doug -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.1/355 - Release Date: 6/2/2006 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com