From slusnia@tulane.edu Thu Nov 1 09:24:51 2001 Received: from mailscan4.cac.washington.edu (mailscan4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with SMTP id fA1HOln22682 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:24:47 -0800 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan4.cac.washington.edu ; Thu Nov 01 09:24:46 2001 -0800 Received: from tulane.edu (majestic.tcs.tulane.edu [129.81.224.6]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with ESMTP id fA1HOj212867 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:24:46 -0800 Received: from [129.81.110.102] ([129.81.110.102]) by tulane.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id fA1HOj406091 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 11:24:45 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 11:26:16 -0600 Subject: Re: Birthday abbreviations From: "Susann S. Lusnia" To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit How about Vivit ann. LX, on the analogue of the burial inscriptions, Vixit ann. ? S. Lusnia On 11/1/01 11:13 AM, "James Butrica" wrote: >> 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 > > > .