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Well, it seems you've had quite a lot of good suggestions and I don't speak or read latin, either. I was reminded of what the guide said to our group just as we began our climb up an active volcano in Costa Rica. He instructed us to not depart from the path. If we were to get too adventuresome and get into real trouble, that would be quite a thoughtless thing to do as we would be putting in danger whoever had to go after our bodies. Needless to say, none of us strayed from the path.
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Hi Faldage,
the other of two
this is indeed the primary meaning, but the signification has grown beyond these limits. "Perseus Word Study Tools" has the following:
A. Another of a class = alius (as opp. to one's self, to another); subst., another, a neighbor, a fellow-creature, ho pelas (so sometimes heteros, Xen. Cyr. 2, 3, 17); cf. Ochsn. Eclog. 90 and 458 (alter designates the similarity of two objects; alius a difference in the objects contrasted).
(found after my first posting)
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Thanks, weis bier. I always manage to learn something new here.
Pro alteris in pericul-. Now, do we want to be in periculo or go into periculum?
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