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kentauros

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63. "You're taking Latin because it's good for you!"

Reply to Manifestor_of_Light (Reply #59)

Thu Jan 24, 2013, 11:56 PM

Jan 2013

Truer words have never been spoken! :

If only I had retained the vocabulary, then I'd know what the hell some DUers were talking about when they post their favorite Latin phrases

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