"Inter Faeces..." Quote

[Jonathan Lighter]

Someone indeed should look it up. Several of us seem to be familiar with it, but it seems not to be in _Yale_.

  JL

Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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At 4:16 PM -0500 2/4/07, Amy West wrote:
>If it's in PL, then someone on Medtext-l should be able to sniff it out . . .
>I can forward the query along if you like. It sounds like it should
>be from Augustine's Confessions if it really is in Augustine.
>
>---Amy West

Well, wherever it comes from, it's nice that after decades of
intermittent speculation about the possibility of *inter-species*
reproduction, we're now back to discussing the inter-faeces variety.

LH

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>>Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:49:16 -0500
>>From: Fred Shapiro
>>Subject: "Inter Faeces..." Quote
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>>Someone has asked me for the source of the saying "Inter faeces et urinam
>>nascimur." I see that it is widely attributed to Augustine, but without a
>>precise source. I would welcome any help on this.
>>
>>Fred Shapiro
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>>Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 13:10:15 -0500
>>From: Charles Doyle
>>Subject: Re: "Inter Faeces..." Quote
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>>Gershon Legman attributed the aphorism to St. Odo of Cluny. For many
>>years I have quested for its source (even in the electronic Migne
>>Patrologia), with no success. Maybe I'm not searching with
>>sufficiant skill or piety.
>>
>>It sometimes appears in the form "Inter urinam et faeces nascimur."
>>
>>Charlie
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