atw: Re: SEC: UNCLASS RE: Corrigendum and peccavi

  • From: Tim Gaden <gaden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:11:15 +1000

peccavi (fortasse) :)

On 15/06/2005, at 12:42 PM, Silcock, Howard DR wrote:

> Presumably the name was applied to that type of confession because  
> "peccavi"
> would have been its first word. I suppose it's a bit like when  
> people talk
> about a "Te Deum" or a "Magnificat".

I should have thought of that!  Apologies.  I didn't see that sort of  
usage in Lewis and Short or Souter's Glossary of Later Latin, and  
didn't think any further.
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