[ExI] hot fire fail

Anton Sherwood bronto at pobox.com
Wed Jan 20 15:46:20 UTC 2021


 > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 1:31 AM Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
 >> SLS delendam esse.

On 2021-1-20 07:27, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat wrote:
> It's 'delendam est - from the Carthagenian quote.   bill w

Well, no, the short version is «Carthago delenda est» (Carthage is a 
delend) and the original is «Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse 
delendam» (Furthermore I consider Carthage to be a delend).  The longer 
contains the shorter as a subordinate clause, changing its syntax.

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