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Posted: 4/24/2001 12:33:17 PM EDT
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I don't know for sure, but it SOUNDS like it means "memory of death."
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Posted: 4/24/2001 12:35:18 PM EDT
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As in Souvenirs...Oh yes!
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Posted: 4/24/2001 12:40:54 PM EDT
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Remember thy death.
[url]cmp1.ucr.edu/terminals/memento_mori/[/url] [img]cmp1.ucr.edu/terminals/memento_mori/images/body_1.gif[/img] |
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Posted: 4/24/2001 12:44:34 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Imbrog|io: Remember thy death. [url]cmp1.ucr.edu/terminals/memento_mori/[/url] [img]cmp1.ucr.edu/terminals/memento_mori/images/body_1.gif[/img] Great Stuff! Thanks...I learned something new today... |
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Posted: 4/24/2001 12:45:49 PM EDT
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Actually, the meaning is closer to "Remember you must die".
When Roman generals were given triumphs (victory parades), an aide was assigned to whisper "Memento mori" to the general to keep his ego under control. |
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Posted: 4/24/2001 12:48:16 PM EDT
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I did too, thanks for the info!
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Posted: 4/24/2001 9:04:38 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Matt VDW: Actually, the meaning is closer to "Remember you must die". When Roman generals were given triumphs (victory parades), an aide was assigned to whisper "Memento mori" to the general to keep his ego under control. "...All glory is fleeting..." P3[pyro][^] |
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Posted: 4/24/2001 11:19:01 PM EDT
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Memento Mori was also placed above the gates of the cemetaries in the late 1500's and 1600's when diseases plagued Europe.
Often combined with a skull and crossbones. Kuiper |
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Posted: 4/24/2001 11:26:48 PM EDT
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The Romans had a lot of strange customs along that line, too. A complete taboo against actually talking about "death" as such, but . . .I remember reading somewhere that they'd even have expert chefs craft banquet dishes in the shape of miniature skeletons, corpses, etc.
We're really a remarkably illusioned society these days. When teh baby-boomers start dying off . . . |
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Posted: 4/25/2001 4:58:05 AM EDT
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And I always thought that the slave whispered the Latin words 'Sic Transit Gloria Mundi' in the ears of the triumphant general!
'[i]Sic Transit Gloria Mundi[/i]' (which is Latin for 'Gloria threw up on the bus Monday')[:D] No, it's not. It's 'Thus passes the glory of this World. Eric The(would-be comic)Hun |
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