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"Nisi" means "unless"
08/08/2008, 07:15:57

    Peter2 writes:

    So it translates literally as "Concerning the dead, nothing unless good," which, as you say, boils down to "speak only well of the dead." It's something that revisionist historians regularly ignore, on the basis that the dead cannot sue, I suppose.




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