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([personal profile] redbird Apr. 19th, 2005 02:01 pm)
Please, Habeant papam. He is not my leader.

Update: the current consensus appears to be "habent papem." Can anyone confirm that? (I got a C in my one semester of Latin, and [livejournal.com profile] cattitude isn't home to ask.)

From: [identity profile] bugsybanana.livejournal.com

Re: pontificem habent


That may be, but I wouldn't trust a classical Latin dictionary with church Latin any more than I'd use a Shakespearean concordance to make sense of rap lyrics.
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