Timeo Danaeos et dona ferentes

[Ed Cryer]

Manu una dant sed altera abripiunt.

Edus

[Johannes Patruus]

On 02/11/2011 12:40, Ed Cryer wrote:
> Manu una dant sed altera abripiunt.

Sed qui erant abreptores? - http://tinyurl.com/6zzpvja

> Edus

Patruus farciminum inedax

[Ed Cryer]

Sic equidem sit.
Reddant Germani Graecis, Franci Italiae aliisque terris praedam a
Napoleone raptam et in Palatio Louvreano abditam, nos ipsi marmora
Elgineana, Athenae illas exactiones omnes quas de civitatibus foedere
Deliano coniunctis corripuerunt, Romani (eheu! hoc loco animus
immensitate earum rerum quibus orbem terrarum spoliaverunt stupet
haeretque) omnem rapinam.

Totus orbis terrarum sic conveniet ad tamquam immanes manubias venales
atque permutationem rerum.

Edus (cui omnia esuriuntur)

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OK, then.
The Germans give back to the Greeks, the French give back to Italy and
other countries the loot stashed by Napoleon into the Louvre, we give
back the Elgin marbles, Athens gives back all the tribute and stuff they
purloined from the Delian League (used to build the Parthenon amongst
other things), and the Roman give back (Sheesh! The mind boggles here at
the vastness of just what they did loot from the world!) all their booty.

The whole world can gather at a kind of colossal car-boot sale and
interchange stuf.

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P.S. I've been given a chance to amend my Vergil quote before someone
jumps on it.
"Timeo Danaos"