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Subject: Ovid quote
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Date: 29 May 88 03:41:56 GMT
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From: Richard Garland 
Subject: Ovid quote
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Interestingly, in the V4.4 IDSN, the editors have seen fit to provide
a translation to this quote:
 
	Before the sea was, and the lands, and the sky that hangs
	over all, the face of Nature showed all alike, which state has
	been called chaos: a rough unordered mass of things ...
 
I guess they think the VMS cognescenti don't know Latin any more.
 
					Rg
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