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…the well-known quote from the Roman playwright Terence…
Really? This was part of your middle school curriculum?
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If you had signed up for Latin, then probably yes. Although usually in high school.
Source: my big sister. She signed up for Latin, I signed up for French because she told me to. Later we agreed that the other way round would have worked much, much better, but whaddaya gonna do.
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I’d say that’s a pretty well known quote, yes.
… she has come to see "disabled bodies as unexpected and charming and exciting. Each one stretched the boundaries of what it meant to be human.
There’s an op-ed by Rebecca Cokley that resonates with this idea.
It takes a strong, independent mind to find beauty in difference, particularly so if the difference is one’s own. I cannot do it for myself; much respect to these humans.
I had two years of Latin, all I remember is Caesar’s Commentary on the Gallic Wars.
…and Winni ille Pu.
All my Latin is from the Asterix comic books, really.
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