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David Amicus
Dec 1, 2013, 11:34:28 PM12/1/13
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On "The Good Wife" tonight a person had a motto by their desk saying "Always Play The Fox". How would one say that in Latin?
When I was working I had a sign on my desk saying "The Buck Passes Here" with a picture of a leaping stag.
When I was working I had a sign on my desk saying "The Buck Passes Here" with a picture of a leaping stag.
Ed Cryer
Dec 2, 2013, 7:52:08 AM12/2/13
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David Amicus wrote:
> On "The Good Wife" tonight a person had a motto by their desk saying "Always Play The Fox". How would one say that in Latin?
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> When I was working I had a sign on my desk saying "The Buck Passes Here" with a picture of a leaping stag.
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Age semper partes vulpis.
> On "The Good Wife" tonight a person had a motto by their desk saying "Always Play The Fox". How would one say that in Latin?
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> When I was working I had a sign on my desk saying "The Buck Passes Here" with a picture of a leaping stag.
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Ed
B. T. Raven
Dec 2, 2013, 11:51:45 AM12/2/13
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Die Mon Dec 02 2013 06:52:08 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time) Ed Cryer
<e...@somewhere.in.the.uk> scripsit:
Also:
Semper vulpineris
from L. & S.
vulpīnor (volp-), āri, v. dep. n. [vulpinus], to play the fox, be sly as
a fox (anteand post-class.), Varr. ap. Non. p. 46, 26; App. M. 3, p.
139, 5.
"The Buck Passes Here" is impossible. Hic acervus (pecuniae) porro
traditur. The two halves of the pun are "Cervus hic transit" and "Hic
dollarus porro traditur."
Eduardus
<e...@somewhere.in.the.uk> scripsit:
Semper vulpineris
from L. & S.
vulpīnor (volp-), āri, v. dep. n. [vulpinus], to play the fox, be sly as
a fox (anteand post-class.), Varr. ap. Non. p. 46, 26; App. M. 3, p.
139, 5.
"The Buck Passes Here" is impossible. Hic acervus (pecuniae) porro
traditur. The two halves of the pun are "Cervus hic transit" and "Hic
dollarus porro traditur."
Eduardus
David Amicus
Dec 3, 2013, 6:31:36 AM12/3/13
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