[Ads-l] Subject: "gauding", 1799 -- a remarkable survival
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Dec 9 08:30:55 UTC 2016
According to the Wikipedia article,
*Subscribere proposui* means "Sign the proposed."
That's just sad.
On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 10:43 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
> <Gaudeamus Igitur> must have been lurking in the background.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudeamus_igitur
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