[Coco] Latin quote: Was: life changing event

[Aaron Banerjee]

With the "Bruta/Brute" line in this thread, I couldn't help but think  
of my very favorite quote, which happens to be in Latin:

"Laser...inter eximia naturae dona numeratum plurimis compositionibus  
inseritur."
    - Plinius, Naturalis Historia XXII 49  (First Century, A.D.)

"The Laser is one of nature's most miraculous inventions and lends  
itself to a variety of applications."

The quote and translation appear on the frontice pages of O. Svelto's  
"Principles of Lasers."  The "laser" Pliny the Elder is talking about  
happens to be a plant with medicinal properties that went extinct  
somewhere around the second century A.D.

Regarding "Bruta," I've been looking for a wife (and someone to be a  
mother to my kid) for years since mine passed away.  I think "Bruta"  
is a very accurate and descriptive term for some of the people I've  
met over the years...

          - Aaron

On May 11, 2013, at 7:44 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

>
>> On Friday, May 10, 2013 10:20:03 AM Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>> On 10/05/2013 2:53 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>>> I was a good year ahead of him but I am so bored I am thinking of
>>>>> going back.  Don't need the money so I guess I could use most of
>>>>> it to buy toys for my COCO's.  :-)
>>>>
>>>> No disrespect intended, but I really can't fathom this type of
>>>> thinking!?!
>>>
>>> Are you married?  :-)  Sometimes how we spend our time is not
>>> totally up to one's self.
>>>
>>>> I've got so much I want to do, I'd retire tomorrow in a heart- 
>>>> beat if
>>> it
>>>> was
>>>> financially viable... unfortunately I've got another 15-odd years  
>>>> if I
>>>> follow the norm.
>>>
>>> My retirement plans involved lots of things to do with my wife.
>>> They also involve living someplace warmer than where I live now.
>>> Unfortunately, she is younger than I am and neither eligible or
>>> interested in retiring.  Kind of makes moving south problematic.
>>> I know it is heresy, but one can only play with computers for so
>>> many hours a day.  :-)
>>>
>>> bill
>>
>>
>> 8-))) Et tu Bruta???
>
> Not me pal....  The "a" ending in latin is feminine.  It should have
> been an "e" and because we all know his name was actually "Brutus",
> here's why...
>
>     "The name "Brutus", a second declension masculine noun, appears
>      in the phrase in the vocative case, and so the -us ending of
>      the nominative case is replaced by -e".
>
> Latin was always so much fun!!
>
> That's our latin lesson for the day and you now have more information
> than you ever wanted.
>
> bill
>
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> wolves
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