From: Julianus
Message: 15691
Date: 2002-09-24
> In a message dated 9/23/02 6:34:01 PM Central Daylight Time,With the original stamps marking it as returned for insufficient
> gknysh@... writes:
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>> --- Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
>> wrote:
>> > I wonder what else they hide in the vaults of the
>> > Vatican: perhaps a Latin/Thracian bilingual -- just
>> > two or three pages, please? The Lord's Prayer in
>> > Etruscan? A couple of Dacian poems signed by Ovid? A
>> > ninth-century Greek-Valachian phrasebook?
>>
>> *****GK: A Greek-Scythian phrasebook from Dio
>> Chrysostomus' lost library. A Tauric prayerbook from
>> the temple of Iphigenea. A letter from Shupiluliuma to
>> Kolaksais III "in our old language" inviting him to
>> cross the Great Sea for a hunt. (:=)))
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> How about a 12 page letter from Vircingetorix in Gallo-Celtic and
> Latin to Julius Caesar pleading for Rome to accept Gaul as a loyal
> ally by showing their common religious practices, trade, agricultural
> and metal working. A political common front against the Germans and
> offering colonies on the Rhine and a joint conquest of Germania?