#132639 - 09/05/04 10:26 AM
Re: Eat more possum
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veteran
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I found this phrase written inside the back cover of my Latin textbook.
Which phrase? Your subject line?
In the back of one of my older Latin textbooks, the reader is instructed to stand on the book in case of flood as it will "always be dry".
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#132641 - 09/05/04 10:39 AM
Re: Yeah, his subject line
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veteran
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Anna, sorry but the subject line is already in English. Eat more possum. An opossum is a large marsupial that looks freakishly like a large albino rat. Possum is also the first person present indicative of posse 'to be able; can' (made famous in the phrase posse comitatus 'sheriff's posse'. So, I don't know if I can help.
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#132643 - 09/05/04 11:14 AM
Re: ubi sub ubi toujours
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veteran
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Well, I'm guessing that's the whole point.
Quicquid! Glad to be of service as the butt of his joke. I see it's also a hemistich from a Jimmy Dorsey song about Dixie.
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#132644 - 09/05/04 01:47 PM
Re: Back to the original question
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Carpal Tunnel
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Eat is the 3rd person singular, present tense, subjunctive of ire, to go.
More is the ablative singular of mos, moris, habit, custom, manner.
Possum is, as nuncle mentioned, 1st person singular, present tense, indicative of posse (old style, potesse), to be able.
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#132645 - 09/05/04 02:15 PM
Eat more possum
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 07/20/03
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Loc: Te Ika a Maui
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In reply to:
An opossum is a large marsupial that looks freakishly like a large albino rat. Possum is also the first person present indicative of posse 'to be able;
Up in this part of the world, possum also means a large marsupial, or, more accurately here in Zild, about 90 million large marsupials. Having actually eaten possum, I can advise against doing so, especially in Australia, where possums enjoy full protection under the law. They also don't taste very nice.
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#132646 - 09/05/04 02:52 PM
Re: Back to the original question
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journeyman
Registered: 11/22/03
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So... ummm... eat more possum is a "Caesar adsum jam forte" that means... ummm... "Let him/her go in the way I can"? There must be a better joke in there. I'm missing something.
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#132647 - 09/05/04 03:18 PM
Re: ij maenner andandos pecus
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veteran
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So, your subject line "means" He/She/it may go by custom; I am able to _____.
Here's one for the others, from an inscription on a old vase: DATIS IN PINCV LAPOTVS COLONIA.
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