Johannes Patruus wrote:
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/a/9596630
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Sir John Gurdon has just won a Nobel Prize for Science. His school
teacher lambasted him as useless;
http://tinyurl.com/9pglt98
Suetonius said of the emperor Titus (Vespasian's son and heir);
Latine Graeceque, vel in orando vel in fingendis poematibus, promptus et
facilis ad extemporalitatem usque
Always ready and adept at extemporising in Latin and Greek, whether when
beseeching or when fashioning verses.
Ed