On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:31:54 +0100, you wrote:
>Richard Haythorn,19/09/01 at !0.03 asked for help (from the Mailbase)in translating some Latin he had found inscribed in a copy of the Jungle Book. I waited for a day before venturing to suggest the words were untranslatable as grouped,supposing that there must be Latin scholars in the base more qualified than I.
>There is however Latin in Kipling. For instance Regulus is full of it, Stalky and Co liberally sprinkled with it. The Book of Words has at least one Latin phrase.
Well, yes. I meant long Latin quotes, not just a few words. Though "Stalky"
does have the boys' artistic rearrangement of Horace, and you're quite right
that the whole point of "Regulus" depends on Latin.
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