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From: "John Isles" <jisles@voyager.net>
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Subject: Re: Birthday abbreviations
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 22:01:40 -0500
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Please make it MVLTIS, not MULTIS.  My mistake, again [see coin] (:o(}  But
do you have a suitable book?  Vnless the recipient is a numismatist, perhaps
the organizer should be the explicator!

John Isles
Plymouth, Michigan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralph Hancock" <hancock@dircon.co.uk>
To: <classics@u.washington.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: Birthday abbreviations


> Many thanks to James Butrica, Susann Lusnia, Helma Dik, Desideria
Desjardins
> and John Isles for their help in this matter. I think that the adapted
coin
> inscription VOTIS LX MULTIS CXX set in a wreath would be perfect for a
> circular cake. It does, of course, set a severe test for the recipient,
who
> is obliged to explain it to the assembled throng. Maybe a suitable book
> could accidentally be left open on his desk the day before.
>
> Ralph Hancock
> hancock@dircon.co.uk
> www.users.dircon.co.uk/~hancock/antioch.htm
>
>

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