From: Mike Sangrey (mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us)
Date: Mon Jan 24 2000 - 17:31:14 EST
cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu said:
> At 11:24 AM -0800 1/24/00, Garland H. Shinn wrote:
>> "VICE" is an English preposition meaning "instead of." Ain't you guys
>> got no dictionaries?
>>
>> G. Shinn
> That's SO disappointing! ;-) And I always thought it was the first
> half of an ablative absolute! 
And I thought "dead languages" was genitival:  "The living vice OF dead 
languages."
Perhaps, "ever-living" would be a better translation.  Viva La Greek.
:-)
-- 
Mike Sangrey
mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us
Landisburg, Pa.
       There is no 'do' in faith, everywhere present within it is 'done'.
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