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Entry: Post-Christian America Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/post_christian_america#27537 Post contents: Re Patrick Buchanan and Patrick Hall: I am happy to tell Mr. Hall that I share his appreciation of the Latin language. One of the greatest of Latin authors was the poet Cicero, who was the master of both lofty philosophy and homely commonsense. He is famous for the line: integer vitae, scelerisque purus, which Webster’s dictionary translates as “upright in life, and free from wickedness”. Cicero also wrote: Quodcumque ostendis mihi sic, incredulus odi, in English: “Anything that you thus thrust upon me, I discredit and detest.” Latin was unquestionably a great language, and Cicero a great man. A Northern Voice. Sent at: 2008 12 01