At 15:13 12/11/02 +1300, you wrote: >On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 14:50, Carl Cerecke wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >>Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. >> > >> > >> > ... true :) >> > >> > Fugit inreparabile tempus >> >> Latina geekit youareicus >> >> or maybe "youarenoticus" as the case may be... > >The funny thing about Latin is that that Romans did not really write it >out in full, unlike Tim and Nordkyn. Too much bother (especially when >you had to carve it out in marble) and the language had a lot of >redundancy. Take the inscription on the Pantheon, which (IIRC) is >something like > M.AGRIPPA.L.F.CONS.TERT.FECIT >(Caveat: I have never been to Rome, and my Roman Art book is not next to >me.) > >This is expanded to > MARCUS AGRIPPA LUCIUS FELIUS CONSULR� TERTRIUM FECIT >(pardon my bad Latin spelling.) Translated it reads > Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, Consul for three > times, built this. >Which is "a lot of crap" because the Emperor Hadrian built the surviving >version of the Pantheon :) > >While having no formal Latin training, I can often get the gist of Roman >inscriptions better than my Dad (who did Latin at school) because I know >the abbreviations and he doesn't! (Thanks Classics 207.) >-- >Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/ > Er, is that Consul for three times or is it Third Consul ?? And spelling wise, think it should be TERTIUM Then again, my memory of Latin is very shaky (I failed Scool C. Latin) and I don't have my dictionary handy.
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