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Hello Bill - 

>> The original Latin "Timeo Danaeos et dona ferentes" (From
>> book II of Virgil's Eneid) would be "I fear the Greeks and
>> the gifts they bring". The gift was, of course, the wooden
>> horse. 

BB> Usually it is translated as "I fear the Greeks, even
BB> bearing gifts". It's one of the more unusual constructions
BB> using the conjunction "et", and Latin teachers go on about
BB> it forever. :-) 

BB> A bit like the other famous line - "Infandum regina jubes
BB> renovare dolorem!". Don't remember which book, but I do
BB> remember reading it fifty years ago at school. 

Virgil's Eneid has 12 books, "Infandum, regina, jubes renovare
dolorem." (I. II, v. 3) (You order, O queen, that I renew one
indivisible pain). 

BB> There isn't much choice - the Iliad, the Odyssey and Ovid's
BB> poetry for literature and Caesar's Gallic Wars for plain
BB> speaking Latin. 

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