February 29th, 2004, 02:05 AM
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Second Lieutenant
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Join Date: Jan 2004
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Re: Niefel AAR: "...Some Say In Ice"
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Originally posted by CharonJr:
VERY nice writing 
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Thanks. I aim to please.
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That sentence in Latin intrigued me "Deus et natura nihil faciunt frustra!", but since my Latin is fairly rusted I can only guess about the meaning here, is it something like "God and nature do nothing without reason" ?
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Not quite. "God and nature do nothing in vain" is more like it. (The interpretation I use, at any rate) A joking self-reference to how the would-be God Peter Magus must have felt after the Second Battle of the Himalayas. While others might claim that that campaign was a complete failure, he, with his optimism, will instead take the long view that despite being a temporary setback, it has taught him valuable information about his enemy that he will use for its eventual defeat.
[ February 28, 2004, 12:10: Message edited by: Peter Ebbesen ]
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