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From: Elizabeth Vandiver <ev23@umail.umd.edu>
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This is wonderful! I'm sorry to say I don't know if it's Forster
or not.

One of my professors in grad. school used to tell of a hapless
student translating Catullus's "ludite ut libet, et brevi /
liberos date" as "play as you like, and quickly give me your
books." 

Elizabeth Vandiver

Bruce Thornton wrote:

> 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"?
> --
.