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Meaning of beati hispani quibus vivere est bibere by Felipe Lorenzo del Río




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beati hispani quibus vivere est bibere
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Funny expression used since ancient times and since the Renaissance has been commented as an example of betacism. But before Julius Caesar Scaliger mocked with this expression our betacism, other previous authors already related the bibere and the vivere . For example, the second-century grammarian Athenaeus quotes a passage from Antiphanes from IV to . C . : To de dsen, eipe moi, tí esti; to pinein , phemi ego : Live , tell me , what is it? Drink, I say. I do not say that living is just drinking, but that drinking, it is understood that wine or other things that make us happy, is to live

  

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