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>"A hero will rise (sic)"
>Obviously arise (come into existence) is intended rather >than rise (move upward.) The use of shall rather than will >might also be prefered since a promise is implied.
Now is "move upward" really so bad? Doesn't Maximus fall into the pits of despair after his family is, and he almost, killed? Afterwards did he not 'move upward' through the ranks of the gladiators, and in his devotion to Rome's ideal republican state (he refused the duty in the beginning of the movie) until he ends up in Rome, in front of Caesar, Jr. to take his true place as a hero of rome?
Granted he was a good General, but the Roman empire lasted for a long time. I don't think 'good General' puts you into hero status. Perhaps hero takes a little 'rising' to the occassion?
>Obviously arise (come into existence) is intended rather >than rise (move upward.)
Now is it still really so obvious, or have I failed to make my point?
mike_c
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