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  "thread": {
    "id": 2093,
    "subject": "The Haunted Boardinghouse: Translations",
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    "first": "2000-01-26T08:17:12+00:00",
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      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0727@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "pei047 at attglobal.net"
      },
      "date": "2000-01-26T08:17:12+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) The Haunted Boardinghouse: Translations",
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          "text": "From my classicist friend:\n----\nGood heavens, that's a lot of Latin for one short story. What's the story?\n\nAlis volat propriis. He flies on his own wings.\n\nAb imo pectore. From deep in the heart.\n\nUsus magister est. Experience is a teacher (learning by doing).\n\n[Soles occidere et redire posset] Nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, nox est \nperpetua una dormienda. [Suns may set and rise again]; for us, once the short \nlight dies, one eternal night remains for sleeping. (Catullus V... the famous \n\"vivamus mea Lesbia atque amemus,\" with all the thousands of kisses).  \n\nTemporis ars medicina fere est. The healing art is essentially time.\n\nPax in bello. Peace in war.\n\nNon exaequat victoria caelo. Victory does not make us equal to heaven [the \ngods].\n\nNullam est librum tam malum ut non ex aliqua parte prodesset. No book is so \nbad that it's not useful in some degree.\n\nOmnia fert aetas, animum quoque. Age takes away everything, including the \nmind. (Virgil, Eclogues IX.51) \n\nNotitia linguarum est prima porta sapientiae. Acquaintance with languages is \nthe first gate of knowledge. \n\nDoctrina sed vim promovet insitam. But teaching increases innate strength \n(Horace, Odes IV.4)\n\nPlacidaque ibi demum morte quievit. Finally he (she) came to rest in peaceful \ndeath.\n\n-alga"
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