> 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.

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

    A bit like the other famous line - "Infandum regina jubes renovare
dolorem!". Don't remember which book, but I do remember reading it
fifty years ago at school. There isn't much choice - the Iliad, the Odyssey
and Ovid's poetry for literature and Caesar's Gallic Wars for plain
speaking Latin.

Best Wishes,
Bill.

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