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  • From: Uche Ogbuji <uche@o...>
  • To: Arjun Ray <arjun.ray@v...>
  • Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 16:47:45 -0600
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Arjun Ray <arjun.ray@v...> wrote:
On Wed, 02 Apr 2014 09:49:30 -0400, John Cowan <johnwcowan@g...>
wrote:

| Eheu fugaces anni labuntur, Postume, Postume,
| The years slip away and are lost to me, lost to me.

|    (author unknown;

        http://www.johnderbyshire.com/Readings/odes-2-14.html

Quod erat inveniendum?

| needs the English pronunciation of Latin)

How, or where, would it differ?

I gather "Lost to May, Lost to May" is rather more elegaic than the wag intended. Plus you still have to lost the damned diphthongal glide.

Semper ubi sub ubi!


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