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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html