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Author: Rick Moen
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Subject: Re: [DNG] Forums: was I have a question about libsystemd0 in devuan ascii,
Quoting Miroslav Rovis (miro.rovis@???):

> But pls. people, I don't understand Latin so well... Nor have time to study.
> Already breaking down tired from lots of work with polishing my Devuan today...
> Could you pls. translate. There'll be others who would benefit...


OK, but I'll warn that putting it in a living language makes it seem
like in-your-face polemics rather than a sly antiquarian joke. It say,
in deliberately bad Anglo-leaning Latin:

'The man in the White House, who is angry and has fake hair, is
dishonourable and a danger to the country.'

> I'm referring to also:
>
> Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> > Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... ;-3)


'Perhaps it will be pleasant to remember these things some day.'

It's what Aeneas tells his exhausted, shipwrecked followers in
_The Aeneid_, book 1. (Renaud/Ron is quite the wit. I doff my hat.)

> > Ave atque vale,


And that is the great poet Gaius Valerius Catullus's famous elegaic
couplet, meaning 'hail and farewell.'