I was an enthusiastic, but inept student of Latin in college. I have read Livy's "War With Hannibal" in translation; it was a thriller, for me, a page-turner, but a search for the exact passage might prove difficult. The incident occurred when Hannibal's guides mistook "Casinum" for "Casilinum", which ended up in the entrapment of the Carthegenian forces. Hannibal had the guides crucified, eventually evading the Romans.
As testimony to Livy's power to fascinate, I think I recall Plutarch's having ignored a nearby volcanic eruption while engrossed in the historian's narrative.
Here's some more nonsense: I recommend looking up a scene from the old David Lynch film: "Dune" (1984, plus or minus): "He who controls the spice controls the universe" -- the six minute clip featuring Baron Harkonnen's medical throne-room. Fighter's soliloquy is icing on the cake to Lynch's commentary on the Hospital State of Eliot's "Four Quartets".
It's just a bit on nonsense to make people think about language. People mishear things or have a lisp and word sounds alter. Confusion often then arises, even wars just because something was misunderstood.
Thank you for that, however despite some knowledge of Hannibal i supposed gained via my Latin at school days, I have not heard of this. Is there more information I could look up, an initial internet search is not revealing?
I was an enthusiastic, but inept student of Latin in college. I have read Livy's "War With Hannibal" in translation; it was a thriller, for me, a page-turner, but a search for the exact passage might prove difficult. The incident occurred when Hannibal's guides mistook "Casinum" for "Casilinum", which ended up in the entrapment of the Carthegenian forces. Hannibal had the guides crucified, eventually evading the Romans.
As testimony to Livy's power to fascinate, I think I recall Plutarch's having ignored a nearby volcanic eruption while engrossed in the historian's narrative.
Here's some more nonsense: I recommend looking up a scene from the old David Lynch film: "Dune" (1984, plus or minus): "He who controls the spice controls the universe" -- the six minute clip featuring Baron Harkonnen's medical throne-room. Fighter's soliloquy is icing on the cake to Lynch's commentary on the Hospital State of Eliot's "Four Quartets".
Shaves? I can't figure out what you're talking about.
It's just a bit on nonsense to make people think about language. People mishear things or have a lisp and word sounds alter. Confusion often then arises, even wars just because something was misunderstood.
It sounds like you recall the passage from Livy's "War With Hannibal" where Hannibal is inadvertently trapped by a mishearing of "Casilinum".
Thank you for that, however despite some knowledge of Hannibal i supposed gained via my Latin at school days, I have not heard of this. Is there more information I could look up, an initial internet search is not revealing?