Brian Harvey scripsit:

> > The whole of Gaul is quartered into three halves.
> 
> I don't get it.  "partes"=parts; "divisa"=divided.

It's a (purported) school mistranslation.  But nothing to the howlers
I used to commit in Latin class.

> (This quotation is about all I remember from high school Latin except for amo,
> amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant (I hope that's right).)

It is.

-- 
In my last lifetime,                            John Cowan
I believed in reincarnation;                    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
in this lifetime,                               [email protected]
I don't.  --Thiagi

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