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Maybe a depiction of Niobe or one of her children? One such image is available at http://www.norwichfreeacademy.com/slate ... ghter.html

Also see
http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/CGPrograms/ ... A100b.html

When you right "Jo" do you mean "Yo" as in "I", the first person singular pronoun? If so, the pronounciation is similar to that in Argentina. I've never heard a Mexican pronounce y's (or ll's) that way.

Something written "jo" in Spanish would be pronounced "Ho".

Wow! Thanks Attice. Please do ask the question if you get a chance. It is turning out to be more interesting than I thought.

Actually, I only began to truly understand the use of the subjunctive, to give one example, once I learned Spanish. So my Spanish helped my Latin.

I thought of another idea that you might use. Since you are only interested in the average age of our sodales, why don't you use the poll facility available when posting?

Wasn't this the riddle that the sphinx asked passers by in Greek mythology?

Well, no. 3 could be a helium balloon.

Salve Lupe,

I'm curious, why not mihi? I think the dative would fit perfectly here. It seems to be a classic (no pun) use of the indirect object.

Tergestus