HdG wrote
>When the SL went to prep school, which was a very long time ago, it was
>'Caesar adsum jam forte, Pompey aderat.' None of this 'iam' business to
>confuse the issue, and 'aderat' is certainly a genuine verb form, while I'm
>not so sure about 'adorat' though it sounds good/possible.
Hehehehehehehe! So the Romans had J in their alphabet then? ;-)
Paul Attwood
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>Happy 1998 to all
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>At 10:14 PM 1/6/98 GMT, you wrote:
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>>>Yes it tends to make people like me feel inferior. I can remember Caesar
>>>adsum iam (i=j) forte Brutus adorat (say it in english ) but the rest has
>>>gone the way of me embryology lessons!
>>>
>>>
>>>Paul Attwood
>>>GP Thanet
>>>
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>>my daughter tells me it's Caesar adsum iam forte, sed Brutus passus sum.
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