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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

The Latin word for "peace" is "pax".

"Columba", if I recall correctly, means "Dove".

20 posted on 02/03/2006 12:46:15 PM PST by Renfield (If Gene Tracy was the entertainment at your senior prom, YOU might be a redneck...)

To: Renfield

You are right, columba is dove. But even in Roman times it was a symbol for peace, that's where I associate it with peace.

30 posted on 02/03/2006 1:11:24 PM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius

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