Any Latin Scholars About?

[sandyRoe]

Solvitur ambulando - It is solved by walking.
Is that a good translation of that Latin phrase?

[Peter Pedant]

brill
word for word

it is a gloss on Zeno's paradox - the bunny covers half and then a quarter and then an eighth and so never covers the whole distance

the fallacy is that one can complete an infinite series in a finite time

can be used anywhere

one Victorian surgeon used to write in a patients notes
solvitur caedendo (it is solved by operating )

[sandyRoe]

Gratias ago, PP

[humbersloop]

walking is a form of moving meditation, it may not be solved but at least it's surfaced

[sandyRoe]

If you walk fast enough you can get away from it. :-)

[humbersloop]

Brecht sandy, was the bedbugs ate me up..

[humbersloop]

a good hoof to Compostella would sort most out though

[jno]

you could always get there via the little royal route

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2ticiUrIrU

[sandyRoe]

JNO, my recurring Icarus dream has increased my fear of falling. I'd sooner stick to the dull old Camino Frances.