The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #58318 Message #924239
Posted By: Steve Parkes
02-Apr-03 - 02:14 AM
Thread Name: Any students of Latin here?
Subject: RE: Any students of Latin here?
Leeneia, you said It bothered me that to immolate something is to burn it up completely, but now I see that in Latin the concepts of sacrifice and burning had merged, ad I was trying to explain how sacrifice involves burning.