[Ads-l] words connected to a single provenance

Andy Bach afbach at GMAIL.COM
Tue Aug 28 19:19:41 UTC 2018


Genocide and "crimes against humanity" invented by Raphael Lemkin and Hersh
 Lauterpacht, respectively, according to Philippe Sands "East Street West
On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity"

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 10:06 PM W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sic semper tyrannus 'Thus always a tyrant'. (<-us> nominative singular).
> JJJRL:  << from Julius Caesar:  Cross the Rubicon, the die is cast, Et tu
> Brute
> and from Brutus: Sic Semper Tyrannus >>
> WB:  <Sic semper tyrannis> 'thus always to tyrants'.  (<-is> dative
> plural).
> With (phonemically significant macrons): <Sīc semper tyrannīs!>.
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