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The Boston boy, with vague fears of the small-pox scourge, translates Arma virumque cano, "I sing of arms and the virus."
AN '81 man translates "Massylique ruunt equites et odora canum vis," "Massylian knights rush forth and a strong scent of dogs."
There seems to be no one on the Era board who is able to translate French. The paper translates all the quotations from other languages which it uses; but a person who could tell what is meant when the Era, referring to a man who has left college, says, "the...
SCENE. - Freshman Recitation in "Odyssey." Mr. B. (a fellow of extensive general knowledge) translates the passage where the purchase of Eurycleia by Laertes is immortalized: "eelkooaboa d' edwkev," - "and he gave for her twenty bee-ves."