Re: Latin and other irrelevant topics

[Lao Xiao Hai <laoxhai@ix.netcom.com>]

Robert Dewar wrote:

>
> ... not fair, it could fit, but I still don't remember him using
> the term, and I had to learn thousands of lines of Ovid -- it
> was the usual punishment at my school -- so while we were in
> exile being punished, we got to learn all about his laments
> of frigid winters in the North :-)

I preferred his more entertaining work, Ars Amatoris.  Of course
we did not get to read that in high school Latin class.  That was
not introduced until college.  Hmmmmm.  Just thinking about that
makes me want to run out and buy a Latin dictionary and locate
a copy of Ovid's salacious work.  :-)

Richard