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Article #2277Re: "Quomodo sedet sola civitas"
From: connolly
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:56
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:56
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In article <1993Jan12.164628.25117@netcom.com>, mdb@netcom.com (Mark Bisgeier) writes: > Does anyone know the translation for this phrase, which appears in Waugh's > "Brideshead Revisited"? It translates "How does the city sit alone?" or "How alone does the city sit?", but heaven knows if that's what it *means*. That's why I don't do literature! (For those who wonder where I got the question mark: an indirect question, "how alone the city sits", would have required the subjunctive _sedeat_.) Perhaps a better question: how do cities *sit*? More usually they lie or (sometimes) stand. See why I don't do literature? --Leo Rugiens
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