Klarinet Archive - Posting 000028.txt from 2004/02

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.oxford.ac.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] latin saying
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 03:44:25 -0500

How about: Is rubbish to be got rid of by force?
Roger S.

In message <016c01c3eab7$d36e93e0$0200a8c0@-----.org writes:
> He wrote "Visne excipere quisquilias?" My Latin is pretty shaky, to say the
> least. Two guesses:
> (literal) "Neighborhood to exclude garbage?"
> or maybe "Does this list exclude spam?"
>
> --Doug
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "rien stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
> To: "klarinetlijst" <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 4:27 PM
> Subject: [kl] latin saying
>
>
> Some time ago someone on this list wrote "visne excipere quinquilias".
> Neither me nor my son, who has a Masters degree in mathematics and physics,
> plays recorder, euphonium and piano on near-professional level (final year
> of conservatory) and reads Latin books like I read Dutch, English or
> Italian, could figure what it means. Can the person who wrote this phrase
> explain it?
>
> TIA
>
> Rien
>
>
>
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