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Re: Latin experts

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Subject: Re: Latin experts
From: clevin@rci.ripco.com (Craig Levin)
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:19:57 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <199610181859-22172@spiegel.becltd.com> from "Peters, Rise J." at Oct 18, 96 02:59:37 pm
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Poster: clevin@rci.ripco.com (Craig Levin)

Caitlin:
> Could someone, please, translate for me the postscript to Littleton:
> Lex plus laudatur quando ratione probatur.

The law is praised more when it is demonstrated with reason.

Passives (verbs ending in -tur) are a real curse in Latin. So is
Latin's habit of not requiring prepositions like with, or by, or
in.
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clevin@ripco.com
Craig Levin
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