"Ed Cryer" <ed@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Senium quod usu victum juvenis quod erudio.
> "Old age because beaten by use, young because I teach".
>
Thank you, your solution seems intelligent to me, and I like it too.
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I'd like to know also the opinion of you all about an hypothesis made by
an
Italian participant (who stressed the fact that this phrase is very
strange). He wrote that senium has quite always a pejorative meaning,
something like old and tedious age; that victum may be accusative of
victus
in the meaning of "style, way of living", and that erudire may also
(rarely)
mean "to improve, to bring to perfection". So:
"I'm an old tedious man because I adopted a style of living, but I'm young
because I keep on improving it", wanting to set the tedium of the habit
against the vivacity of the change (the thread is located in
it-alt.cultura.lingua.latino)
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