From: "Bob W"
From: John Sessoms
[...]
> >> > i say capital letters are markup, along with all punctuation,
> spacing,
> >> > and any use of puns or rhyme ;?>
> >> >
> > indeed. The Romans did well enough with none of those. Perhaps with
> the
> > exception of puns.
> >
>
> The Romans also had rhymes.
>
Really? Examples?
End rhyme is not a feature of classical Latin, but alliteration and
homeoteleuton are.
Since damn near every word in the language ends in *ae*, *am*, *em*,
*um* or *us*, they'd be hard put NOT to rhyme.
"O Fortunatam natam me consule Romam."
O happy Rome, born when I was consul
- Cicero
am, am, am
I admit I had to look that up. My high school Latin is lost in the mists
of time almost half a century ago.
Still ...
Latinus lingua mortuus
ut mortuus ut existo
iuguolo totus Romanorum
quod est caedes mihi
aliquantulus frenum Caesar
aliquantulus Cicero
succurro expleo locus
qua rabidus populus vado
LatinUS - mortuUS - totUS - aliquantulUS - locUS - rabidUS - populUS
existO - CicerO - vadO
8-D <- emoticonUS!
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