Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pyuxqq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxqq!nosmo From: nosmo@pyuxqq.UUCP (P Valdata) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Peter Wimsey Question Message-ID: <655@pyuxqq.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Aug-84 17:28:50 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxqq.655 Posted: Wed Aug 22 17:28:50 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Aug-84 04:55:51 EDT Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 6 Once again my Latin fails me. What are Peter and Harriet saying near the end of Gaudy Night, when he asks "Placetne, Magister?" and she replies "Placet!" Is it from a quotation or are they just being ultra-scholarly? Pat Valdata pyuxqq!nosmo