>>In my Latin class the teacher told us the line "forsan et haec olim >>meminisse iuvabit" was famous. We did not go very detailfully into the >>meaning of this line. I would like to hear other people's reaction to >>this line. Are there deeper meanings? > >The meaning is straightforward. A time will come, perhaps, when we will be >glad to remember our present ordeal.... > >Simon Cauchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cf. also "Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny." Bruce Springsteen, "Rosalita", ca. 1972 Jim O'Hara James J. O'Hara Professor of Classical Studies & Chair Classical Studies Dept. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wesleyan University 860/685-2066 (fax: 2089) Middletown CT 06459-0146 Home Page: http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/faculty/jim.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
