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"_Quem_, whom; _fugis_, are you avoiding; _ab demens_, you silly ass; _habitarunt di quoque_, gods too have lived in; _silvas_, the woods. ' Go ahead!"
I always brighten the classics -- it is part of my system -- and therefore I translated _demens_ by "silly ass. " But Miss Beaumont need not have made a note of the translation, and Ford, who knows better, need not have echoed after me. "Whom are you avoiding, you silly ass, gods too have lived in the woods."