De Senectute and a CSA general

[Hugh Lawson]

Today from Amazon I received the Loeb Classical Library volume
containing Cicero's essay "De Senectute" (On Old Age). William
Armistead Falconer began the translation while he sight-translated the
piece to his uncle, Gen. H. B. Armistead, C.S.A., the latter ill and
confined to his room.

You never know where those acw connections will turn up.

Falconer's two-page Preface is testimony to the place that the classics
once occupied among educated folk.

hl

[MITO MINISTER]

Those of us who are working class also enjoy the classics.

[Hugh Lawson]

MITO MINISTER <cigarm...@gmail.com> writes:


> Those of us who are working class also enjoy the classics.

Your cultural level is indicated by the tenor of your posts. You are a
thug.

[MITO MINISTER]

On Mar 27, 10:30 pm, Hugh Lawson <hu.law...@gmail.com> wrote:

> MITO MINISTER <cigarmanw...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Those of us who are working class also enjoy the classics.
>
> Your cultural level is indicated by the tenor of your posts.  You are a
> thug.

No, I advocate legal measures to identify, apprehend, incarcerate,
try, convict and sentence Southern White Boys like yourself. As far as
my cultural level is concerned, Fred Flintstone is my role model,
along with the bridge-and-tunnel types over in Jersey.

I enjoy a ball game, beer and hot dogs. I stopped going to the opera
about ten years ago.

[slotrot]

You finally figured out the operas were in Italian. That's why you couldn't understand the words. I can just picture you going to the opera in your leopard skin tux, pedalling your but off in the granite car. Hope those mocassins have good, heavy soles. LOL

[slotrot]

You give him too much credit, Hugh. He isn't a "ten"or; he's a zero.

[Hugh Lawson]

MITO MINISTER <cigarm...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mar 27, 10:30 pm, Hugh Lawson <hu.law...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> MITO MINISTER <cigarmanw...@gmail.com> writes:
>> > Those of us who are working class also enjoy the classics.
>>
>> Your cultural level is indicated by the tenor of your posts.  You are a
>> thug.
>
> No, I advocate legal measures

You tell lies about things that you pretend to know. That's what makes
you a thug.

hl

[Hugh Lawson]

Sound psychology Slotrot. ;-)

[MITO MINISTER]

Mocassins my ass. I go barefoot!

[MITO MINISTER]

On Mar 29, 1:23 am, Hugh Lawson <hu.law...@gmail.com> wrote:
> MITO MINISTER <cigarmanw...@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Mar 27, 10:30 pm, Hugh Lawson <hu.law...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> MITO MINISTER <cigarmanw...@gmail.com> writes:
> >> > Those of us who are working class also enjoy the classics.
>
> >> Your cultural level is indicated by the tenor of your posts.  You are a
> >> thug.
>
> > No, I advocate legal measures
>
> You tell lies about things that you pretend to know.  That's what makes
> you a thug.
>
> hl

Liars are thugs? That makes YOU a thug, White Boy!

[Hugh Lawson]

MITO MINISTER <cigarm...@gmail.com> writes:


> Mocassins my ass. I go barefoot!

MiMi needs to clean up his language

[Hugh Lawson]

You are perfectly aware MM of what you do: you pretend to know what you
do not know. Everybody sees this.

[Hugh Lawson]

MITO MINISTER <cigarm...@gmail.com> writes:


>>As far as my cultural level is concerned, Fred Flintstone is my role model,

Hu replies:

That's obvious, MiMi.

[MITO MINISTER]

On Mar 30, 8:25 am, Hugh Lawson <hlaw...@sony.i-did-not-set--mail-host-
address--so-tickle-me> wrote:

> MITO MINISTER <cigarmanw...@gmail.com> writes:
> >>As far as my cultural level is concerned, Fred Flintstone is my role model,
>
> Hu replies:
>
> That's obvious, MiMi.

You slur the immortal legacy of Frederick Flintsone? Pistols at dawn,
Sir!

[Hugh Lawson]

MiMi is an idiot.

hl

[MITO MINISTER]

On Apr 1, 10:05 pm, Hugh Lawson <hlaw...@sony.i-did-not-set--mail-host-

address--so-tickle-me> wrote:
> MITO MINISTER <cigarmanw...@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Mar 30, 8:25 am, Hugh Lawson <hlaw...@sony.i-did-not-set--mail-host-
> > address--so-tickle-me> wrote:
> >> MITO MINISTER <cigarmanw...@gmail.com> writes:
> >> >>As far as my cultural level is concerned, Fred Flintstone is my role model,
>
> >> Hu replies:
>
> >> That's obvious, MiMi.
>
> > You slur the immortal legacy of Frederick Flintsone? Pistols at dawn,
> > Sir!
>
> MiMi is an idiot.
>
> hl

H. L. is an old fart pretending to be a serious student of the White
South. He is a product of the White South, nothing more. His family
were ante-bellum rapists and murderers.

[Hugh Lawson]

MITO MINISTER <cigarm...@gmail.com> writes:

[ snip ]

MiMi bragged that he'd read 5000 lines of Latin verse. But the Aeneid
alone contains nearly 10,000 lines. Thus Mito Minister's Latinity is as
flimsy as his knowledge of "the South", which he admits he picked up by
watching tv.

[MITO MINISTER]

On Apr 3, 9:43 pm, Hugh Lawson <hlaw...@sony.i-did-not-set--mail-host-
address--so-tickle-me> wrote:

Yes, about 5,000 lines or so. A statement of fact. This is less than
the Aeneid's 10,000 lines. You are right again. And?

[Hugh Lawson]

MITO MINISTER <cigarm...@gmail.com> writes:

> Yes, about 5,000 lines or so. A statement of fact. This is less than
> the Aeneid's 10,000 lines. You are right again. And?

To an educated person the meaning was clear. But you have beg for more
instruction Mito Minister.

[MITO MINISTER]

On Apr 4, 11:03 am, Hugh Lawson <hlaw...@sony.i-did-not-set--mail-host-
address--so-tickle-me> wrote:

I wasn't bragging, Perfesser. You are.

[Hugh Lawson]

Of course you were, you thought 5000 lines was an impressive
achievement. It isn't, and now you wish you hadn't mentioned it.

[MITO MINISTER]

On Apr 4, 9:13 pm, Hugh Lawson <hlaw...@sony.i-did-not-set--mail-host-

address--so-tickle-me> wrote:
> MITO MINISTER <cigarmanw...@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Apr 4, 11:03 am, Hugh Lawson <hlaw...@sony.i-did-not-set--mail-host-
> > address--so-tickle-me> wrote:
> >> MITO MINISTER <cigarmanw...@gmail.com> writes:
> >> > Yes, about 5,000 lines or so. A statement of fact. This is less than
> >> > the Aeneid's 10,000 lines. You are right again. And?
>
> >> To an educated person the meaning was clear. But you have beg for more
> >> instruction Mito Minister.
>
> > I wasn't bragging, Perfesser. You are.
>
> Of course you were, you thought 5000 lines was an impressive
> achievement. It isn't, and now you wish you hadn't mentioned it.

Uh, I didn't. You asked. I answered - and you're still not happy!

[Hugh Lawson]

MITO MINISTER <cigarm...@gmail.com> writes:

> Uh, I didn't. You asked. I answered - and you're still not happy!

You're the one who keeps trying the explain it away

[MITO MINISTER]

On Apr 5, 9:36 pm, Hugh Lawson <hu.law...@gmail.com> wrote:

> MITO MINISTER <cigarmanw...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Uh, I didn't. You asked. I answered - and you're still not happy!
>
> You're the one who keeps trying the explain it away

There's nothing to explain. I was forced to study Latin in high
school. We translated Caesar and wrote dirty Latin jokes on the walls.
You read Latin now, in your dotage. Who's the braggart?

[Hugh Lawson]

MITO MINISTER <cigarm...@gmail.com> writes:


>> You're the one who keeps trying the explain it away
>
> There's nothing to explain. I was forced to study Latin in high
> school. We translated Caesar and wrote dirty Latin jokes on the walls.

But you just keep explaining. <snicker>

[MITO MINISTER]

On Apr 5, 11:59 pm, Hugh Lawson <hu.law...@gmail.com> wrote:

Gasp! You win!

[Hugh Lawson]

Mito Minister's resentment is showing.

[MITO MINISTER]

On Apr 10, 10:27 pm, Hugh Lawson <hu.law...@gmail.com> wrote:
> MITO MINISTER <cigarmanw...@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Apr 5, 11:59 pm, Hugh Lawson <hu.law...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> MITO MINISTER <cigarmanw...@gmail.com> writes:
> >> >> You're the one who keeps trying the explain it away
>
> >> > There's nothing to explain. I was forced to study Latin in high
> >> > school. We translated Caesar and wrote dirty Latin jokes on the walls.
>
> >> But you just keep explaining.  <snicker>
>
> > Gasp! You win!
>
> Mito Minister's resentment is showing.

You and Edge -The Internet is yours and you're welcome to it! Morons!

[Hugh Lawson]

Mito Minister's anger is showing.

[MITO MINISTER]

The irony meter has just exploded. You're an old coot sputtering and
slobbering over your keyboard and you think that I'M angry? That dog
won't hunt, as your ilk is wont to say.

[hla...@hobbit.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me]

MITO MINISTER <cigarm...@gmail.com> writes:


>> Mito Minister's anger is showing.
>
> The irony meter has just exploded. You're an old coot sputtering and
> slobbering over your keyboard and you think that I'M angry? That dog
> won't hunt, as your ilk is wont to say.

MiMi needs to improve his English composition.