Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Pax Plini

Sorry, Pliny. Let's be friends again. I have written you a poem:

Pax Plini!
De luna non discordia fiat
Graphis pisci mea est
Semper adhibeo
Tu meus alter ego es
Et te suspicio.


Pliny the Elder: Thankyou that is very accomplished, but let me translate it into English for the benefit of your non-Latin reading friends.

Peace Pliny!
Let us no longer argue over the moon
The fish-topped pencil is my own
I use it all the time
You are my alter ego
And I admire/mistrust you.

Let your readers judge which meaning of 'suspicio' you had in mind.

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