From jbutrica@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Thu Nov 1 09:17:56 2001 Received: from mailscan3.cac.washington.edu (mailscan3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with SMTP id fA1HHtn153734 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:17:55 -0800 Received: FROM mxu1.u.washington.edu BY mailscan3.cac.washington.edu ; Thu Nov 01 09:13:25 2001 -0800 Received: from cerberus.ucs.mun.ca (cerberus.ucs.mun.ca [134.153.2.162]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with ESMTP id fA1HDPB05191 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:13:25 -0800 Received: from [134.153.128.98] (drusus.clas.mun.ca [134.153.128.98]) by cerberus.ucs.mun.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA21938 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 13:43:22 -0330 (NST) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 13:43:22 -0330 (NST) X-Sender: jbutrica@pop.morgan.ucs.mun.ca Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <008401c162f5$8492b040$f93470c2@main> References: <5E5B5397B92DA849874262D1AF191C2C02489C01@exchange2.ColoradoCollege.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: classics@u.washington.edu From: James Butrica Subject: Re: Birthday abbreviations >A classicist friend is having his 60th birthday and a cake is being made for >him, with 'Happy 60th Birthday' on it in Latin. There is not enough room on >the cake for anything as long as 'Felicem diem natalem sexagesimum'. What >would be an authentic-looking abbreviated form? > >Thanks, > >Ralph Hancock >hancock@dircon.co.uk >www.users.dircon.co.uk/~hancock/antioch.htm If he's in good health and has a healthy sense of humour, how about "Moriturum te salutamus"? More seriously, "annus LXus fauste et feliciter tibi incipiat" looks to be a little long too, but I can't devise anything that's really short: I thought Latin was supposed to be lapidary and succinct? James Lawrence Peter Butrica Department of Classics The Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, Newfoundland A1C 5S7 (709) 737-7914 .