{"id":2442,"date":"2010-01-01T09:59:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T14:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2010-01-01T09:59:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T14:59:33","slug":"muram-aries-att","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/muram-aries-att\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Muram aries attigit<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trust me, it&#8217;s funny:  <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/fileview?id=0B77l4lqiR0CuZDEwZDczMzMtNzAwZC00Mjc2LThiMjgtNjdjMDg1YzVmNTkz&#038;hl=en\">a Florida lawyer explains to his counterpart<\/a> exactly why settling out of court is the prudent option.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am of the opinion that it is malpractice to file a libel suit without first serving a &sect;770.01 demand, and any lawyer who does not even try to serve a &sect;770.01 notice is quite simply, too mentally deficient to practice law&#8230;.<br \/>\nApparently, your client\u2019s umbrage stems from my client\u2019s tweets concerning your client.  Below, I provide a reproduction of his Twitter posts from October 8, 2009 (when my client<br \/>\nhad a confrontation with one of Route 60 Hyundai\u2019s employees) until October 21, 2009,<br \/>\nwhen my client became bored with the subject&#8230;.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it just goes on from there.  The letter concludes with the words <em>Muram aries attigit.<\/em><br \/>\nAs <a href=\"http:\/\/politicsacrossthepond.org\/?p=2006\">Political Glimpse<\/a> explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The letter, which deserves to be read in full, concludes with the declaration that the customer intends to pursue counteraction according to the principle of muram aries attigit, which translates as \u201cthe ram has touched the wall.\u201d<br \/>\nThis refers to a Roman military policy toward cities the Romans placed under siege. The local authority would be told that, as a matter of policy, once the first battering ram touched the city wall, there would be no surrender accepted, no quarter and no mercy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>HT <a href=\"http:\/\/politicsacrossthepond.org\/?p=2006\">A Political Glimpse from Ireland<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peekinthewell.net\/blog\/muram-aries-attigit\/\">House of Erastosthenes.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trust me, it&#8217;s funny: a Florida lawyer explains to his counterpart exactly why settling out of court is the prudent option. I am of the opinion that it is malpractice to file a libel suit without first serving a &sect;770.01 demand, and any lawyer who does not even try to serve a &sect;770.01 notice is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/muram-aries-att\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><i>Muram aries attigit<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commonplace-book","category-fun-and-games","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}