> Stephen,
> A colleague of mine, Brian Hancock, suggests the following Horatian lines
> might be appropriate for a poor man about to kill a presumably wealthy (he
> was robbing him) bishop:"pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas
> regumque turres"-- "pale death with impartial foot knocks at the poor man's
> cottage and the palaces of kings." If the bishop was pleading for his life
> on the basis of special status this would constitute "a nice knock-down
> argument."
>
> Martin Howley
Martin: I see that you posted your message about two minutes before I
posted mine. Great minds think alike, eh? :-)
Thanks very much for your message, and please thank Brian for sharing his
thoughts with us (and congratulate him, too, for his inspired guess)!
George
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