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@loribmt, @hopeseeker22, my short-term memory is gone and so is part of my long-term memory, including most things Latin. So I have to say, "Valete." Heck, I don't even remember if that's a correct "bye bye."
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@kamama94
“Tua memoria bona est!”
“Vale” is farewell said to one person. If there are more than one, it’s “válete”. Did u know the ancient Romans used no spaces in between written words? Nor for a long time did they have “lower case”letters. So, in Jan 49 BC, when Caesar crossed the Rubicon River with his legions (strictly forbidden by the Senate -> to have his army follow him in), it touched off civil was & led to end of Roman Republic, & eventual rise of the autocratic Roman Empire. to civil war. Caesar, pausing on the “legal” side of the river, tens of thousands of legionaries & cavalry anxiously behind him, the General thought long and hard about crossing with or without soldiers. Steadily, strongly he is supposed to have said: “Iacta alea est”, or literally “Thrown the die is”. Or maybe: “Alea iacta est”(Latin word order being flexible) “The die is cast.” Like in “There’s no turning back now guys!” But Roman scribes would have written his quote as: “IACTAALEAEST”. Sometimes “I” and “J” were interchangeable. Perhaps they did this because “paper” or even marble was expensive.
At that, all of Caesar’s legions crossed over; resulting in bloody civil war, an end to the Roman. Republic (like US), and the emergence of the Roman Empire. Are you asleep by now?
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@kamama94 Perfeci. Nailed it!! LOL.