hahahaha. The secondary school I went to taught Latin - I took it for
three years. I am also Catholic and recognized the expression (in part
from having watched Pope Benedict's election on TV - I was not yet
alive at the previous papal election).

BTW, I don't live in Ithaca anymore. Cornell allows the use of a
Cornell.edu email address for life if you graduated from there, which
I did in 2001. I live in Lexington MA (not all that far from where
Olin is - although I've never met him).

I didn't understand the part about Ithaca being in Greece and not NY.
I know that the original Ithaca was in Greece but there is a town
named after it in NY (as well as many others with classical names,
like Homer, Aurora, Alexandria, Rome, Athens,  Attica, Greece,
Macedon, Minerva, Romulus, Seneca/Seneca Falls, Sparta, Scipio, Tyre,
Ulysses, Vestal, and Virgil) Some of the influential people in
settling those areas must have been classicists :)

And, no, I didn't remember all of those towns off the top of my head -
I had to look some up :)

Sean


On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Dario Greggio <adpm.to@inwind.it> wrote:
> Vasile Surducan wrote:
>
>> An italian talking latin does not surprising me, but an english man in
>> Ithaca (Ithaca is in Grece not in NY) , that's weird.
>> :)
>
> :) thank you - you know, we always have so many of those... popes |
>
> And you mean Sean?
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