"Non sequitur" - Latin = "It does not follow". [Note: sequitare ?? is one of the awful "deponent" or "semi-deponent" verbs; its form is passive but its meaning is active. That's as much as I remember from fifth-form Latin thirty years ago.*]


The phrase is beloved of lawyers, and it means roughly, "The conclusion does not follow from the arguments". Or in this case, your post immediately above his, doesn't seem to be part of this thread. However, it is in reply to an earlier post of Keith A of Hertford's, in which he said:

"Thanks for the warm welcome Tam.
(Why do you keep changing your Mudcat name?)




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That, and "amo, amas, amat", and "Mensa" = "O! Table!". And of course,

Caesar adsum jam forte,
Brutus aderat.
Caesar sic in omnibus,
Brutus siciniat.