Re: Dead languages?

docdwarf_at_panix.com
Date: 07/09/04 

Date: 8 Jul 2004 22:21:46 -0400

In article <m18ydul5fm.fsf@macfortran.local>,
Richard Maine <nospam@see.signature> wrote:
>docdwarf@panix.com writes:
>
>> 'Vidi, vici, veni!'
>
>I thought he came first. :-)

I thought a gentlemen was supposed to let the lady do that.

>
>> 'Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres!'
>
>Oh dear! My high school Latin text must have had a bowdlerized
>version or something. I'd *SWEAR* I remember this as
>'Alles Gall in tres partes divisa est'. But a quick google
>check doesn't find it in that form.

Well... according to Google the form I recalled appears in a few places
where the scholarship appears to be respectable (first link was to
Perseus -
<http://www.chlt.org/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0002:book=1:chapter=1>
 - and that is often a Good Sign)... but 'Alles'?

>Wonder if I still have
>that text around (probably not) to check whether it is my
>poor memory or whether the text really had an "edited" version.

One need not rule out the other... as I have admitted previously, my
memory is porous.

DD