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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Rambi who wrote (66075)12/5/2004 9:53:44 AM
From: Crocodile  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
The first sentence I ever learned in first year Latin was Agricola est in aqua (the farmer is in the water).

Well, that sounds somewhat more useful that the first sentence of Greek that I learned -- something that went roughly like, "Oh Captain, that ship sails to Salamis!" (unfortunately, I can't transcribe the Greek for you, but I doubt SI has the font set required for typing in Classical Greek anyhow. I believe that the only Latin I ever got 'round to reading were some rather devilish and somewhat naughty poems by Catullus. (o:

croc
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