Peter MacIsaac wrote: > "We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into > teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to > meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for > creation the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency > and demoralisation." > > - From Pertonii Arbitri AD 66, attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General > who later committed suicide.
Peter, the correct name of the work is "Petronii arbitri" (not "Pertonii") - a satirical work by Gaius Petronius (not "Petronus" as you have spelt it). The best known surviving part of it, Cena Trimalchionis (Trimalchio's Dinner), is hilarious. At least, I dimly recall that it was hilarious when we studied it at school... If you search for "pertonii" on this SMH blog page you'll see that someone else made exactly the same spelling errors as you, so it is clearly an easy mistake to make: http://blogs.smh.com.au/newsblog/archives/frankenstein/003510.html Google-is-cruel-but-fair-ly yours, Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
