Apologies--meant to be backchannel, or I would have checked the spelling of
your last name, Hugh--a mistake I won't make again.
I am a techno-idiot.
At 10:21 AM 7/21/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>It feels a little like doing crossword puzzles. Just wanted to show
>Pseudo-Susanna how to do it in American. Tollhurst's modernized version is
>very good.
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>At 12:20 PM 7/21/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>>WOW! (Takes a Marco to know one, it seems.)
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>>Hope we'll see more fruits of this fertile collaborative entity,
>>Marcus Valerius Weiss (Weissus?)--
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>>Candice
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>>At 04:09 PM 7/20/00 -0700, you wrote:
>>>Kiss me and kiss me again, Diadumene. "How many times?"
>>>you ask. Would you wish me to count
>>>the ocean's waves, or number the shells
>>>on the Aegean's shore? the bees that wander the Attic hills
>>>or the cheers and applause of theater-goers
>>>when Caesar's enters? How many kisses did Catullus
>>>ask and receive from the lips of Lesbia?
>>>Whoever can count them has received too few.
>>>
>>>At 10:04 PM 7/20/2000 GMT, you wrote:
>>>>Marco Valerio Marziale ( 40 d.C.? 104 d.C.)
>>>>translated by Susanna
>>>>
>>>>Book VI
>>>>
>>>>XXIV
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>>>>Basia da nobis, Diadumene, pressa. "Quot" inquis?
>>>>Oceani fluctus me numerare iubes
>>>>Et maris Aegaei sparsas per lotora conchas
>>>>Et quae Cecropio monte vagantur apes,
>>>>Quaeque sonant pleno vocesque manusque theatro,
>>>>Cum populus subiti Caesaris ora videt.
>>>>Nolo quot arguto dedit exortata Catullo
>>>>Lesbia: pauca cupit qui numerare potest.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Infinite kisses
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>>>>Give me lots of kisses, Diadumene. "How many", you ask.
>>>>The ocean's waves do you want me to count
>>>>And the sea-shells scattered along the shores of the Egeo,
>>>>And the bees roaming on the hills around Athen
>>>>And the voices, the hands echoing in the crowded theatre
>>>>When the folk finally see Caesar? I could not tell
>>>>how many kisses Lesbia, exhorted, gave Catullo.
>>>>Those who can count kisses, do not claim for many.
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