From AJROSE93@aol.com Thu May 10 13:53:07 2001 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f4AKr0016998 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 13:53:03 -0700 Received: from imo-r12.mx.aol.com (imo-r12.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.66]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f4AKqvF17962 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 13:52:57 -0700 Received: from AJROSE93@aol.com by imo-r12.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v30.10.) id d.4b.b63530f (4219) for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 16:52:43 -0400 (EDT) From: AJROSE93@aol.com Message-ID: <4b.b63530f.282c599a@aol.com> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 16:52:42 EDT Subject: Re: Try this on for prophesize To: classics@u.washington.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 138 In a message dated 5/10/01 11:52:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time, cmori@pop3.stgeorges.bc.ca writes: << Well, could one not say the same about the Latin used on this list? This past week, someone actually wrote "Cari Fratri" and got away with it. O tempora...C.Mori >> That was the undersigned, in fact, heart in mouth -- and clearly egg on face, too. For the record, I am *always* up for correction in such matters, though nobody is obliged to provide it, natch. What I wrote as an opening salutation (miserable layfeeb that I am) was "Cari Fratri et Sorores." I'm unsure whether the better correction would be once (onlist) or who knows how many times (offlist), but I would be *most* grateful to have it -- and at least it's on-topic. :) Barbarically -- A.J. .