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From: lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross)
Subject: Re: A.D.
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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 04:37:46 GMT
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In a previous article, MUSKB@LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU (Kim Bastin) says:

>In <Pine.A32.3.93-heb-2.07.970215233217.27986C-100000@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il> nachmag@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il writes:
>
>>  What is the Latin counterpart of 'A.D.' (Anno Domini), i.e., is there a
>>  Latin equivalent for 'B.C.' ?
>
>None is in use to my knowledge.  Before Christ would translate as ante
>Christum (or ante Dominum - `before the Lord').

Of course in really *modern* Latin we could use capital commas and 
periods ("<" and ">") along *with* the abbreviations, so we'd have some 
way of guessing *which* "A.D." we were writing about...

And for the last 7,5 centuries or so of BCE time, naturally one says "A.V.C."
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