Word: fuit
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...Fuit intus rumor quidam sternutamenti similis et deinde denuo silentium...
...climate, and loathe the squawks of the white cockatoos; but something of you had been left behind, irrevocably; and you hated to think of the jungle taking over roads and airstrips ... As Virgil makes Aeneas deplore the city he had left and lost forever: iam seges est ubi Troia fuit-'now corn grows where Troy...
...keep his version lively, Translator Enrico Mafficini modeled his dialogue on the colloquial Latin of Plautus (died 184 B.C.), and from the first "Fuit quondam . . ." (Once upon a time), the adventures of Pinoculus move as swiftly as ever. He is set upon by bandits who demand his money or his life ("Emitte nummos aut morerel"), and later decide to hang him ("Suspendamus!"'). He is robbed, imprisoned ("Subito in carcarem mittite," cries the judge), encounters a "horridum serpentem," is nearly eaten alive by a fisherman who thinks he is a crawfish...
...College of Heralds had done well by the Times in their selection of the device. On an argent field were drawn horizontal black lines, suggesting a printed page. Superimposed was a caduceus (staff of Hermes) to represent the newsbearing function. Happily chosen was the motto: Tempns fuit est et erit (Time was, is, and will be). Shrewd readers will recognize that the motto is also a reference to the daily headpiece of the editorial column in which appear the words: "Times Past," "The Times," "Future...
...hoped and confidently expected that the coming celebration will be a success in every way. Twenty years ago another ovation, in the shape of an address signed by Harvard alumni (quorum magna pars fuit Theodore Roosevelt) was tendered to President Eliot, containing among other words the following tribute...