Ed Cryer wrote:
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> "Ed Cryer" <ed@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Johannes Patruus" <invalid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>
>>> On seeing "nuees ardentes" in the newspaper today used with reference
>>> to pyroclastic flows, I thought, "Aha, that must be a misprint for
>>> "nubes".
>>>
>>> But no, the silly thing turns out to be French, not Latin!
>>>
>>> O, the glory of ignorance!
>>>
>>> Patruus
>>
>> Ah, ah. No accent over the relevant e? Well then, blame the newspaper!
>> I hope you hadn't started perusing that famous letter of Pliny the
>> Younger describing the Etna eruption and his uncle's death?
>> "Nubes ardentes"?
Accent MIA, but lovely piccies - http://tinyurl.com/5poqr5
> Vesuvius, Ed, Vesuvius. 79 AD.
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> Ed the Elder
Pliny the Elder's Natural History has recently resurfaced in Philemon
Holland's translation:
http://www.archive.org/details/plinysnaturalhis00plinrich
Patruus the Not-getting-any-Younger
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