On 16-Mar-98 10:34:17 Lemeneva, Elena wrote:
>Great thanks to everyone who took pains of satisfying my curiosity.
>Two other questions appeared in the course of the time.
>First:
>a 90-years-old Austrian gentleman recalls that in his youth, being a
>country physician, he ones visited a very traditional house where
>there was a saying written on the wall: "Write your neighbour's
>mistakes on running water; his good deeds engrave in marble." The
>young physician remembered these words for the rest of his life, but
>no one knows where they come from.
Check out my signature below. The proverb appears in PG. I don't have the
reference handy at the moment but I can locate it for you if you like.
>Second:
>Why St. Francis addressed birds as "Fratres mei aves" (at least, in
>Celano's transmission), although birds, according to the logic of
>grammar, are rather "sisters"?
I don't have the slightest idea! Maybe because St. Francis addressed the birds
in a language other than Latin?
Regards,
Efthimios Mavrogeorgiadis
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