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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2006-10-23 02:37 am
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He looks as if he knew a great deal that can never be any use to him

Signs of Incipient Geekdom #1381: A friend signs an e-mail "SC" and your first thought is, "Who signs an e-mail 'scilicet'?"

I suppose it should follow without saying that I spent this afternoon researching Roman laws on citizenship and resident aliens for no project of my own, except that someone asked me a question to which I did not know the answer and I was curious. The process turned out to involve rather more Cicero than I had bargained for. Why does no one ever ask me questions that involve rather more Anakreon, or Lucan, or even Lykophron?

Miniver coughed, and called it fate,
And kept on drinking.
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[identity profile] kraada.livejournal.com 2006-10-23 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
My thought was "Who signs an e-mail 'Seal Clubber'?"

[identity profile] clarionj.livejournal.com 2006-10-23 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Miniver coughed, and called it fate,
And kept on drinking.

I have to put that quote up on my fridge.

Oh, and thanks for the info on the quotes. Glad the one was H.D. since I have her collection sitting right on my end table, always. I'm sure I've read Eurydice from it; now I'll have to see where those lines came in.

Now, I want to check out the others. Thanks!

[identity profile] schreibergasse.livejournal.com 2006-10-23 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
PS If a friend signed a post "SC", I would think "South Carolina". Or possibly "Where's the A?"
Questions on Roman Law can always be directed to Professor Winroth...
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[personal profile] larryhammer 2006-10-23 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Stupid Cicero.

---L.

[identity profile] lesser-celery.livejournal.com 2006-10-23 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
If anyone asks you what Cicero had to say about the timing of the consular elections of 63 BC, you can turf that to me.

[identity profile] teenybuffalo.livejournal.com 2006-10-23 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, obviously the message was from Smith College.
And on another topic:

MELISSA:
Pray, what authors should she read
Who in Classics would succeed?

PSYCHE:
If you'd climb the Helicon,
You should read Anacreon,
Ovid's Metamorphoses,
Likewise Aristophanes,
And the works of Juvenal:
These are worth attention, all;
But, if you will be advised,
You will get them Bowdlerized!

CHORUS: Ah! we will get them Bowdlerized!

[--W. S. Gilbert, Princess Ida]

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