zepoodle wrote:
Edit@Theo: That was a lame way to show you're smarter than someone. You can get translations of famous quotes from a phrasebook. ****, I've got a book around here somewhere that teaches me to swear in Latin.
It was a famous quotation, dimwit. I've taken 6 years of Latin, 3 years of French, and a year of German. When I learned Latin, I picked up Greek on the side to learn more about the Roman Empire; as most stuff was written in Greek at the time of Julius Caesar, and reading translations isn't as interesting as the original.
As Caesar was dying in the Senate, he didn't say, "et tu, Brute?" as Shakespeare wrote; a Roman historian who wrote about the event described him saying to Brutus as he died, "and you, my son?" in Greek, which was considered the erudite way of speaking at the time of his death. (He could have also meant child, as teknon generally means child.)
Since the post I was replying to said "Hail Caesar," referring to me ruling the rogue forums--apparently by power--I figured I should return the favor with a famous Caesar quotation.
Regardless, he could have gone to the search function, typed in "shadow dance" and had his answer in minutes.