[lit-ideas] Re: Latin help please
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:01:13 -0330
Quoting Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>:
> > My daughter has come across something while reading around Juvenal, a
> > fear among Romans that octopi might emerge from sewers and eat one's
> > pickled fish. "anecdote given: an octopus would swim up the drain into
> > a house every night to eat the pickled fish stored there by the Iberian
> > merchants."
> >
> > I thought this might make a good t shirt, but I have no idea how to
> > render, "may an octopus swim up your drainpipe and eat your pickled
> > fish" in Latin. Anyone available to try?
>
> Sorry, Mate. The best I could do was this blessing in Italian.
>
> Maggio l'uccello del paradiso volare su per il naso.
>
> Robert Paul
And the closest I could get to it in Russian is:
Hristos Voskrese, voistsino voskrese; kalinka kalinka kalinka moya.
Na zdarovye, Valodsya
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