My husband put one foot forward atan angle to the other and grasped his left hand with his right. ‘Occiditmiseros crambe repetita magistros,’ he declaimed.
He was quoting Juvenal,the seventh satire (‘rehashed cabbage is the death of wretched teachers’), thoughI don’t think he could manage much more from any Juvenal satire, except perhaps‘bread and circuses’, panem et circenses, from the tenth.
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