Re: There's no such word as `virii'

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 21:01:24 MDT

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At 01:40 PM 5/14/03 -0700, Robert wrote:

>Veni Vidi Vici
>
>since my mind came up with this trivia and Google could remind
>me of what it meant...
>
>But *what* can we "conquer"

That's a corrupted version of what Julius really said, which was

Veni Viri Vici

or in English,

"I had a venereal disease, but I got over it"

Damien Broderick

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