I wonder if anyone can help with this please??
I am trying to get a translation of this Latin phrase, but not had any luck
on Google as it has offered a very complicated choice - It is in one of
our letters, one clergyman to another in 1820 and he writes
quote
Under these circumstances it is in vain you say to me
"I nunc, et versus tecum meditere canonos"
for tho you may continue to imitate the living swan, my symbol would be only
the dying one, nor would my prose be worth your notice more than my verse,
only by good luck you can get it without paying for it.
Unquote
So of course that is no help to me in guessing what the Latin words might
be.
Any help much appreciated - and actually that whole letter would probably
appeal to list members, it is on our website - the page of old British
letters
http://www.earsathome.com/letters/Victorian/cloyne.html
Eunice Shanahan in Queensland.
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