Re: [Leica] Oriental Asians

[Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net>]

Frank

I would guess that any lawyer worthy if his "ipso facto" would know
his "lengua Latina" (sp?)

Remember that Marc is a "laudator temporis acti."

Jerry

frank theriault wrote:

> Marc,
>
> So, what you're saying is that you know Latin?  <g>
>
> -frank (who surely was put in his place...)
>
> Marc James Small wrote:
>
> > <snip>"Oriens" is a present active participle derived from the third -io
> > declension intransitive verb, "orior", meaning, "I rise".  Thus, the
> > participle means rising, and the reference was to the rising sun.  Later,
> > the term came to mean "east" and "morning", as the morning sun, from Rome,
> > was located to the east.
> >
> > I believe that we derive "orient", as in align, and "orienteering" from the
> > same root, but I'm too lazy to pull my Lewis & Short or OLD at the moment.
> >
> > Vale!
> >
> > Marcus Iacobides Parvus
> >
> > msmall@infionline.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> > Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!
> >
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