Some familiar faces on this card for Ali.
And, in a busy weekend for birthdays, following yesterday’s card celebrating Sarah’s Ancient Rome class project, here’s a card for classicist Tom.
English phrases from my school Latin exercise book, from 1963, but if you’re struggling with the Latin phrases they’re:
- An eagle doesn’t eat flies
- Seize the wine
- Through adversity to the stars
- As wise as far as the beard (i.e. don’t be mislead by appearances)
- My hovercraft is full of eels (a quote from Monty Python’s ‘Dirty Hungarian Phrase Book’, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Episode 25, 1970)
- If the winds fail you, use the oars