From: alex_lycos
Message: 19108
Date: 2003-02-23
> Alos note the forms esse and est with long /e/, from a different stem,Is this a Latin proverb? ( si quid est animum )
> meaning "to eat". e.g. Horace: si quid est animum = if anything is
> eating your mind. Long vowel, e:st, not est
>
> Peter