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Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:14:29 -0700
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From: Bruce Thornton <brucet@csufresno.edu>
Subject: Re: student bloopers
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>  >From an examination paper at Vilnius University (translated):
>
>'Barba non facit philosophum' means 'A beard does not grow on a
>philosopher.'
>

Is it in one of E.M. Forster's novels that an ill-prepared Latin 
student translates Pan custos ovium as "A pan of custard with eggs"?
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