> > (lente lente curite noctes equae ...)
>
> Much touched, Robin, but I seem to recall the Latin thus: currite noctis
> equi
>
> MR (Latin 1, Auckland Univ, 1955 failed)(oh it's Faustus wanting to delay
> whatshisname, isn't it...)
Yo -- "slowly, slowly, swift horses of the night" ...
Ovid via both the A and B texts of Marlowe.
Didn't think that those many would get this.
The omission of the intial "O!" (Marlowe, or Ovid, or both?) was
deliberate -- the mis-spellings (and I'm sure you are right here) was simply
sloppy. I was doing this top-of-my-head, so I didn't check.
{O-Level Hutchesons Latin barely passed -- ask Douglas Clark to gloss the
sociometrics behind this.}
Robin
[On whom the Black Bull has tramped his foot ...]
(Boy, I *really* screwed-up the Latin declensions here, didn't I?
CP3O)
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