> “Parvulus vir tristis in caupona sedit ante cerevisiam.

> Venit vir magnus, umerum parvuli percusssus, ebibit eius cerevisiam
> unico hauritu.

> Parvulus incipit plorare.

> Dicit ille magnus: Noli te ita gerere, pusille, ac flere propter unam
> cerevisiam!

> Tunc parvulus: "En, ausculta: Hodie mane uxor mea me reliquit, pecunia e
> computo detraxit, domus vacua est. Deinde e munere dimissus sum! Non iam
> vivere volui:

> Recubui in orbitis ferreis... deviatio!

> Me suspendere volui... funis diruptus!

> Fistula ferrea me occidere volui... telum haesit!

> Nunc ultimam pecuniam pro cerevisia solvi, venenum infusi, et tu mihi
> exhauris eam!”

> He got the joke from a site calle _Latine Loquamur_ where apparently
> this Latin version was made by one Peter Dittmann. I like all of the
> diction except ferrea fistula, which seems to mean a gun of some kind
> which jams. Here are some gun words I have collected, mainly from David
> Morgan:

> gun / ballista, machina ignivoma; --  focīle, is n.; flinta* [s.18] --
> sclopētum [DuCange; s.17]; manuballista ignivoma, pyroballista,
> sclopellum; ignifera ballista (Ciar.); (cannon) tormentum (bellicum)
> ignivomum; ballista ignivoma; (rifle) sclopetum ignivomum tubo intus
> striato; (pistol) manuballistula ignivoma, sclopetum manuale; pistolium;
> machine -- sclopētum machinale; polybolum [Latinitas]; polybolum,
> ballista ignivoma automataria; machine--- fire  (crebra) missilium
> ignivomorum iaculatio, iactus; mydrobolum; sclopētum automatum
> [Eichenseer]; manuballista ignivoma semiautomataria; pistolium
> machinale; hoplopolybolum;  --ner  ballistarius; --nery  ars
> tormentorum; sclopus, sclopetus (Milton); -- barrel fistula sclopetaria;
> canalis; scapus; tubus sclopeti, canalis; breech of a -- sclopeti pars
> inferior ; --sight dioptra [Vitr.]; horopter, -eris [Bartal] ; --stock
> sclopēti lignum

>> “Parvulus vir tristis in caupona sedit ante cerevisiam.

>> Venit vir magnus, umerum parvuli percusssus, ebibit eius cerevisiam
>> unico hauritu.

>> Parvulus incipit plorare.

>> Dicit ille magnus: Noli te ita gerere, pusille, ac flere propter unam
>> cerevisiam!

>> Tunc parvulus: "En, ausculta: Hodie mane uxor mea me reliquit, pecunia e
>> computo detraxit, domus vacua est. Deinde e munere dimissus sum! Non iam
>> vivere volui:

>> Recubui in orbitis ferreis... deviatio!

>> Me suspendere volui... funis diruptus!

>> Fistula ferrea me occidere volui... telum haesit!

>> Nunc ultimam pecuniam pro cerevisia solvi, venenum infusi, et tu mihi
>> exhauris eam!”

>> He got the joke from a site calle _Latine Loquamur_ where apparently
>> this Latin version was made by one Peter Dittmann. I like all of the
>> diction except ferrea fistula, which seems to mean a gun of some kind
>> which jams. Here are some gun words I have collected, mainly from David
>> Morgan:

>> gun / ballista, machina ignivoma; --  focīle, is n.; flinta* [s.18] --
>> sclopētum [DuCange; s.17]; manuballista ignivoma, pyroballista,
>> sclopellum; ignifera ballista (Ciar.); (cannon) tormentum (bellicum)
>> ignivomum; ballista ignivoma; (rifle) sclopetum ignivomum tubo intus
>> striato; (pistol) manuballistula ignivoma, sclopetum manuale; pistolium;
>> machine -- sclopētum machinale; polybolum [Latinitas]; polybolum,
>> ballista ignivoma automataria; machine--- fire  (crebra) missilium
>> ignivomorum iaculatio, iactus; mydrobolum; sclopētum automatum
>> [Eichenseer]; manuballista ignivoma semiautomataria; pistolium
>> machinale; hoplopolybolum;  --ner  ballistarius; --nery  ars
>> tormentorum; sclopus, sclopetus (Milton); -- barrel fistula sclopetaria;
>> canalis; scapus; tubus sclopeti, canalis; breech of a -- sclopeti pars
>> inferior ; --sight dioptra [Vitr.]; horopter, -eris [Bartal] ; --stock
>> sclopēti lignum

> Ferrea fistula = archabusium
> http://logeion.uchicago.edu/index.html#archabusium

> Patruus