Re: Learning Greek

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From: D Gary Grady
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:00

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Yesterday I wrote:

>[...]. I've coincidentally just been reading some Terrence and
>noted that he was educated in Greek (in fact, he was at the University
>in Athens when word came of Caesar's assassination), but that was a
>century and a half later. [...]

Aargh. Post in haste, repent at leisure.

It was of course HORACE, not Terrence, who was at university in Athens
at the time of Caesar's assassination; Terrence would have been
awfully old by then...

I don't suppose I could get away with calling this a typo. A better
term might be a braino...

D Gary Grady
Durham NC USA
73513.2350@compuserve.com / dgary@mindspring.com

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Date: 1996/12/19
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