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Wednesday Latin Quiz

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    #21
    Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
    As King Charles I shouted at Prince Rupert, after the latter had lost an important battle in the English Civil War

    "You promised me mountains, but delivered molehills!"

    (Substitute "they" for "you")



    edit: I guess the literal translation is something like "They agreed the hills, but produced a ridiculous mouse"

    Close.

    Mountains will be in labour, and an absurd mouse will be born. (all that work and nothing to show for it)
    But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the younger

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      #22
      Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
      I'd go along with that.

      (Was going to suggest "The end justifies the means", but that doesn't mean quite the same.)
      exitus acta probat
      But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the younger

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        #23
        Unless this thread involves Caecilius in his garden, I'm out.

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          #24
          Originally posted by Pondlife View Post
          Unless this thread involves Caecilius in his garden, I'm out.
          Go and Caec in your own bloody garden!
          And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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