From uhschmit@phil.uni-erlangen.de Sun Mar 17 02:57:02 2002 Received: from mailscan6.cac.washington.edu (mailscan6.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g2HAuxDN112672 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 02:56:59 -0800 Received: FROM mxu2.u.washington.edu BY mailscan6.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Mar 17 02:56:58 2002 -0800 Received: from mailhub.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (mailhub.rrze.uni-erlangen.de [131.188.3.52]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g2HAuvZB004802 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 02:56:58 -0800 Received: from faumail2.rrze.uni-erlangen.de by max5.rrze.uni-erlangen.de with ESMTP for classics@u.washington.edu; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 11:56:41 +0100 Received: from FAUMAIL2/SpoolDir by faumail2.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Mercury 1.48); 17 Mar 02 11:56:38 +0100 Received: from SpoolDir by FAUMAIL2 (Mercury 1.48); 17 Mar 02 11:56:37 +0100 Received: from oemcomputer (192.44.82.202) by faumail2.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Mercury 1.48) with ESMTP; 17 Mar 02 11:56:33 +0100 From: "Ulrich Schmitzer" To: classics@u.washington.edu Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 12:03:08 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: the whispering guy Message-Id: <3C9485FC.9929.6A2245@localhost> X-pmrqc: 1 In-reply-to: <3C942D04.7565.126871@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.01) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body On 17 Mar 2002 at 5:43, dmeadows@idirect.com wrote: > Interesting query just came in: what was the guy called who rode in > the chariot with a triumphing imperator to remind the latter he was > human??? Tertullian, as far as I know the locus classicus for this, gives no indication (apol. 3,33): Hominem se esse etiam triumphans in illo sublimissimo curru admonetur; suggeritur enim ei a tergo: "respice post te! hominem te memento!" et utique hoc magis gaudet, tanta se gloria coruscare, ut illi monitio condicionis suae sit necessaria. U.S. Ulrich Schmitzer -- PD Dr. Ulrich Schmitzer uhschmit@phil.uni-erlangen.de Institut fuer Alte Sprachen z.Zt. Lehrstuhl Latinistik Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg Universitaet Konstanz http://www.phil.uni-erlangen.de/~p2latein/personal/ushome.html .