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Bill Joplin

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Nov 6, 2002, 4:11:00 PM11/6/02
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Hello--For many generations, a family camp I go to in the Adirondacks
has had a lovely inscription carved into a large beam over the fireplace:

Ille terrarum mihi praeter omnes angulus ridet.

We know what it means but not its source in literature. I would be so
grateful if someone could tell me where it comes from--with enough
precision so that I could locate it in an English translation.

Thanks! --Bill Joplin (Newton, Mass.)

pebal

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Nov 6, 2002, 5:10:24 PM11/6/02
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Q.Horatius Flaccus, Odes II.6.13-14.

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Gary Vellenzer

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Nov 6, 2002, 5:12:22 PM11/6/02
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In article <3DC9856...@rcn.com>, ws...@rcn.com says...
Horace, Odes, Book 2, Ode 6, lines 13-14a

It was a popular quotation in Victorian times.

Gary

Javi

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Nov 6, 2002, 5:46:30 PM11/6/02
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In news:3DC9856...@rcn.com,
Bill Joplin <ws...@rcn.com> escribió:

Horatius, Carminum Liber II, VI. But it seems that Horace wrote "ille
terrarum mihi praeter omnis angulus ridet"

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Best regards
Javi

Conjunction of an irregular verb:

I am firm.
You are obstinate.
He is a pig-headed fool.


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