Did Fred Nurk walk upon Italy's mountains green?
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Did Fred Nurk walk upon Italy's mountains green?
Does Latin have a Joe Blow, Fred Nurk, John Doe, Jean Dupont, Toto, <insert local variant here>, with a bit more personality than quidam? Someone who is the typical soldier/slave/yokel or even senator for that matter? Perhaps in popular plays as a figure of fun?
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Re: Did Fred Nurk walk upon Italy's mountains green?
"Davus", I think, as a slave or servant // ut servus, puto, phil96.
Vide hoc: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3vwL ... us&f=false
Vide hoc: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3vwL ... us&f=false
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Re: Did Fred Nurk walk upon Italy's mountains green?
...et haec: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irnerio et http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizio,_Cai ... _Calpurnio (12th century // duodecimo saeculo apud Inerium)
et hoc in Digestis Juris Justiniani, liber tertius (3.5.25): http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/justinian/digest3.shtml
Titius, Gaius et Sempronius = Tom, D_ick and Harry
(+ Seius in Digestis Juris Justiniani)
et hoc in Digestis Juris Justiniani, liber tertius (3.5.25): http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/justinian/digest3.shtml
Titius, Gaius et Sempronius = Tom, D_ick and Harry
(+ Seius in Digestis Juris Justiniani)
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Re: Did Fred Nurk walk upon Italy's mountains green?
Gratias tibi, Adriane. The Adam/Wilson reference will be very useful in a wider context too, for one whose knowledge of the Roman Empire has been fed almost entirely by Asterix the Gaul and Robert Graves.
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Re: Did Fred Nurk walk upon Italy's mountains green?
You haven't seen Gladiator, then? I thought that, as an Australian (presumed), you would be a Russell Crowe fan.phil96 wrote:...for one whose knowledge of the Roman Empire has been fed almost entirely by Asterix the Gaul and Robert Graves.
Nonnè taeniolam Gladiator nomine vidisti? Credi australianum (ut sumo) te Russelli Cornicis scaenici fautorem esse.
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Re: Did Fred Nurk walk upon Italy's mountains green?
No, didn't see it; must have been doing something else at the time. RC impressed me in A Beautiful Mind but generally I'm not a fan (Russellus Cornix? Russellum Cantumgalli malo). Anyway, he's really a New Zealander.adrianus wrote: You haven't seen Gladiator, then? I thought that, as an Australian (presumed), you would be a Russell Crowe fan.
WIth my background in Biology this mystified me (A little tapeworm? Wotz he on about?) until the penny dropped.adrianus wrote:taeniolam
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Re: Did Fred Nurk walk upon Italy's mountains green?
I didn't know he was from New Zealand. Well, I suppose I myself am less a Rustly Crow, more a Ridley Scott, fan (who isn't really Scottish or the most riddly movie director).
Illum Novozelandum esse ignoravi. Re verâ ego minùs Cornicis Crepantis magìs Scoti Aenigmatistae fautor sum (nec hic Scotus verus nec dispositorum cinematographicorum aenigmaticissimus).
Illum Novozelandum esse ignoravi. Re verâ ego minùs Cornicis Crepantis magìs Scoti Aenigmatistae fautor sum (nec hic Scotus verus nec dispositorum cinematographicorum aenigmaticissimus).
I'm writing in Latin hoping for correction, and not because I'm confident in how I express myself. Latinè scribo ut ab omnibus corrigar, non quod confidenter me exprimam.