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[CBlackwill at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/28/00 4:55:12 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
gloning at Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE writes:

> CAP. XXV. — DE SPICA.
>  Spica calida et sicca, et calor ejus sanus est. Et qui spicam cum vino
>  coquit, vel, si vinum non habet, cum melle et aqua coquat, et ita
>  tepidum saepe bibat, et dolorem jecoris et pulmonis, et dumphedinem in
>  pectore ejus mitigat, et scientiam puram ac purum ingenium facit."

Hello?  I knew I shouldn't have slept through my Dead Languages class at 
University.  What is this, Sanskrit?  Seriously, though...anyone have a 
translation for this ?

Man cannot live on bread alone... he must have beer to soak it in.