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Dear Shanks: I suspect that the effort required to produce ligatures on the computer will erode UK enthusiasm for them.
Fetor can have many sources: from Internet:
"I set out. Away from the lanterns my progress slowed. I stumbled half-blind in the shadows; I moved cautiously around the corners of temples, coming now upon a recumbent cow, now upon a column bathed in moonbeams. When, hoping to make better time, I stepped away from the river into the Old City, I was met by heat and a fetor of urine and jasmine petals and buffalo dung; the Old City was a maze of yard-wide alleys choked with surging throngs of animals and people. Stymied by the labyrinth, unable to breathe, with sweat drenching my shirt, I retraced my steps and resolved to keep to the bank until I could make a direct climb to my destination."
I remember being amused in biochem lecture by statement that Roman ladies used to drink small amounts of turpentine, because it gave the odor of violets to their urine. The lecturer was unable to tell me for whose benefit this was done. Risible to imagine escort sampling, and then making compliment on effectivness.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted smallpox! of troy 11/03/03 07:21 PM Calling all Latin scholars! wofahulicodoc 11/04/03 12:51 AM Re: Calling all Latin scholars! wwh 11/04/03 01:10 AM Re: Calling all Latin scholars! shanks 11/04/03 05:26 PM Re: Calling all Latin scholars! wwh 11/04/03 06:05 PM ligatures here and there wofahulicodoc 11/04/03 09:57 PM Re: ligatures here and there Faldage 11/05/03 12:53 AM Re: Calling all Latin scholars! doc_comfort 11/13/03 05:05 AM Re: Calling all Latin scholars! wwh 11/13/03 01:35 PM
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