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Hugh Lawson
May 2, 2013, 8:24:14 PM5/2/13
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Slowly working my way through Cicero's essay "De Amicitia" or "On
Friendship". I'm also falling back to regroup after a failed attack on
Tacitus's "Agricola", a work in praise of his father-in-law. Tacitus is
extremely difficult for me, um in Latin I mean.
I like to keep my "cultured despisers"* up-to-date on my reading.
* arch reference to Schleiermacher's famous "On Religion: Speeches to
Its Cultured Despisers".
Wiregrass Willie
May 3, 2013, 10:25:20 AM5/3/13
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On Thu, 02 May 2013 20:24:14 -0400, Hugh Lawson <hu.l...@gmail.com>
wrote:
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>Slowly working my way through Cicero's essay "De Amicitia" or "On
>Friendship". I'm also falling back to regroup after a failed attack on
>Tacitus's "Agricola", a work in praise of his father-in-law. Tacitus is
>extremely difficult for me, um in Latin I mean.
I don't know Latin from Swahili. But I am a great admirer of
Tacitus. His interpretation of the Jewish Exodus is great.
Actually -- one might better call his version the "Expulsion".
Another thing I find interesting is where he suggests the Jews may
well have been descended from an Ethiopian tribe. Don't you know
that thought would give some Baptists nightmares ?
http://classics.mit.edu/Tacitus/histories.5.v.html
"...Many, again, say that they were a race of Ethiopian origin.."
wrote:
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>Slowly working my way through Cicero's essay "De Amicitia" or "On
>Friendship". I'm also falling back to regroup after a failed attack on
>Tacitus's "Agricola", a work in praise of his father-in-law. Tacitus is
>extremely difficult for me, um in Latin I mean.
Tacitus. His interpretation of the Jewish Exodus is great.
Actually -- one might better call his version the "Expulsion".
Another thing I find interesting is where he suggests the Jews may
well have been descended from an Ethiopian tribe. Don't you know
that thought would give some Baptists nightmares ?
http://classics.mit.edu/Tacitus/histories.5.v.html
"...Many, again, say that they were a race of Ethiopian origin.."
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