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Old 03-27-2016, 06:00 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Marshal Kilgore View Post
The fun with Latin is that long sentences are tamed by grammar instead of word order.
My attempt at a translation is:

"No one remembers a crueler or longer war in Italy since our ancestors expelled the Goths."
This would depend on if the quote was about the war itself, or the effects of the war on the people.
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