Abril!
𝑨 𝑳𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒅𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒆́ 𝒅𝒆 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒎 𝒂 𝒅𝒂́ 𝒂𝒐𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒔, 𝒆 𝒏𝒂̃𝒐 𝒅𝒐𝒔 𝒒𝒖𝒆 𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒎 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒂. - Salgueiro Maia
(A expressão que - acredito eu que - o Capitão faria perante esta actualidade de gente mole).
It's all Greek to me ;-D
Stephen Halliwell GREEK LAUGHTER A study of cultural psychology from Homer to early Christianity In the third century BC, when Roman ambassadors were negotiating with the Greek city of Tarentum, an ill-judged laugh put paid to any hope of peace. Ancient writers disagree about the exact cause of the mirth, but they agree that Greek laughter was the final straw in driving the Romans to war. One account points the finger at the bad Greek of the leading Roman ambassador, Postumius. It was so ungrammatical and strangely accented that the Tarentines could not conceal their amusement. The historian Dio Cassius, by contrast, laid the blame on the Romans’ national dress. “So far from receiving them decently”, he wrote, “the Tarentines laughed at the Roman toga among other things. It was the city garb, which we use in the Forum. And the envoys had put this on, whether to make a suitably dignified impression or out of fear – thinking that it would make the Tarentines respect them. But in fact g...
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