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From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James J. O'Donnell)
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Subject: Re: nice piggies
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Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 16:03:48 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <l03110701b6da61a2c030@[134.153.128.98]> from "James Butrica" at Mar 18, 2001 12:59:31 pm
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legite feliciter:

	http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/porcelli.html

Jim O'Donnell
Classics, U. of Penn
jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu


James Butrica wrote:
> 
> Just to give the pleasant side of ancient pigs a showing, let's not forget
> the Testamentum Porcelli, which according to Jerome whole classes of
> schoolboys used to recite in a state of high hilarity: summoned by the cook
> to his execution, M. Grunnius Corocotta begs a little time to write his
> will, then does so (including the stipulation of a monument stating that he
> had lived for 999 1/2 years).
> No more gruesome, I suppose, than our 3 little pigs; or were the students
> actually being taught about how to write a will? [PS Not a serious
> question.]
> 
> James Lawrence Peter Butrica
> Department of Classics
> Memorial University of Newfoundland
> St. John's, Newfoundland  A1C 5S7
> (709) 737-7914
> 
> 

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