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- From: garrett@math.rice.edu (David Garrett)
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- Subject: Re: dante
- Message-ID: <By0yM2.5n8@rice.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 17:15:37 GMT
- References: <17053@umd5.umd.edu> <1992Nov18.195106.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu> <1992Nov19.195023.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov19.195023.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu> rtsumn01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
- >Yes, I found a quote from _Inferno_ last night and, damn it, it *is* in
- >Italian! At least, it looked like Italian, it didn't look like Latin, and
- >I couldn't find the words when I looked 'em up in Latin dictionaries.
- >
- >True, word order doesn't matter in Latin, but that's because the words were
- >modified so you could match 'em up. Thus, I would expect to be able to
- >determine whether "all" modified "hope" or "ye."
- >
- >Here's the quote; any Italian students out there?
- >
- >"Lasciate ogni speranza, voi, ch'entrate!"
- ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^
- abandon all hope who enter ye
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- Roughly speaking...I don't know what `voi' means, as my Italian is a
- little rusty.
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- Dave
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