Word: cato
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...explanation that he is looking for the golden tomb of the White Goddess of the Sahara. Some of the things his camera sees are "the Wall Street of Carthage," a bleak row of empty stone buildings; amphitheatres where the lions of Libya enjoyed Christians; the place where Cato committed suicide; a strange unknown city called the City of Fear, buried in the middle of the Sahara. The houses of this city, built in a country where in modern times rain never falls, were made entirely of sand and mud and stood eight stories high. There is a palace equipped with...
...Skate Cato Sirs: My memory exudes testimony supporting your Latin version of the remarks of Senator Cato (TIME, May 19, p. 26), to wit; an item published several years ago in the Paris edition of the Xew York Herald...
...Marcus Portius Cato...
Some sixty years have passed since I studied Latin in school, but I think I am not far wrong when I quote the phrase which Cato used as follows...
Correct Latin though scholarly Subscriber Andrae's version is, the version actually used by Cato, and accurately quoted by TIME, is also correct Latin. Let Subscriber Andrae consult his Allen & Greenough's, or any other standard Latin grammar, anent the gerundive construction...