Re: Dead languages?

From: Dr Ivan D. Reid (Ivan.Reid_at_brunel.ac.uk)
Date: 07/10/04


Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:59:41 +0000 (UTC)

On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 02:03:13 GMT, Robert Wagner <robert.deletethis@wagner.net>
 wrote in <40edfa9c.13003756@news.optonline.net>:

> Caesar actually wrote: "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes
> tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgae, aliam Aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum lingua
> Celtae, nostra Galli appellantur. Hi omnes lingua, institutis, legibus inter se
> differunt. Gallos ab Aquitanis Garumna flumen, a Belgis Matrona et Sequana
> dividit. Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae, propterea quod a cultu atque
> humanitate provinciae longissime absunt nium fortissimi sunt Belgae. "

        It's all Greek to me!

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