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  "thread": {
    "id": 2094,
    "subject": "\"The Haunted Boardinghouse\":  translations",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2000-01-26T10:39:20+00:00",
    "last": "2000-01-26T10:39:20+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0728@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "mark millman",
        "address": "millman at us.ncipher.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-01-26T10:39:20+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re:  \"The Haunted Boardinghouse\":  translations",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "alga,\n\nThank you for getting us these very helpful translations, \nand please thank your friend for obliging us by making\nthem--and so quickly, too.\n\nMark Millman"
        },
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 10:04 PM 25-01-00 -0500, alga wrote:\nWm. posted:"
        },
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          "text": "Now, is there anyone who would be so \nkind as to translate all the Latin bits in \n\"The Haunted Boardinghouse\"? [I know \nthat some of it is explained in context, \nbut I can't come up with a good guess \nfor some of the phrases towards the end]."
        },
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          "text": "Why don't I take care of this? One of my best friends \nis a classicist, and can translate them in a jiffy. I'll e-mail \nher tomnorrow (too tired to look up the phrases to-\nnight) and we'll have them by Friday or so.\n\n-alga"
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          "text": "And at 08:17 AM 26-01-00 -0500, alga \ncontinued:"
        },
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          "text": "From my classicist friend:"
        },
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          "text": "----\nGood heavens, that's a lot of Latin for one short story. \nWhat'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 \ndoing).\n\n[Soles occidere et redire posset] Nobis cum semel occidit \nbrevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda. [Suns may \nset and rise again]; for us, once the short light dies, one \neternal night remains for sleeping. (Catullus V... the famous \n\"vivamus mea Lesbia atque amemus,\" with all the thou-\nsands of kisses).  \n\nTemporis ars medicina fere est. The healing art is essentially \ntime.\n\nPax in bello. Peace in war.\n\nNon exaequat victoria caelo. Victory does not make us \nequal to heaven [the gods].\n\nNullam est librum tam malum ut non ex aliqua parte \nprodesset. No book is so bad that it's not useful in \nsome degree.\n\nOmnia fert aetas, animum quoque. Age takes away every-\nthing, including the mind. (Virgil, Eclogues IX.51) \n\nNotitia linguarum est prima porta sapientiae. Acquaintance \nwith languages is the first gate of knowledge. \n\nDoctrina sed vim promovet insitam. But teaching increases \ninnate strength (Horace, Odes IV.4)\n\nPlacidaque ibi demum morte quievit. Finally he (she) came \nto rest in peaceful death.\n\n-alga"
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