10-22-2010, 11:37 AM
But this is not 'vocabulary analysis' - i.e. trying to determine the origins of names,- for example 'lorica hamata' seems to mean 'hooked chest protection' = mail , no matter what the etymological origin of the two words that make up the expression.......
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff