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    "id": 5387,
    "subject": "Explanation of bad translation of Latin Mottoes on Sundials.",
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    "first": "2009-03-30T20:00:56+00:00",
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      "message_id": "<63812447.20090330220056@poczta.fm>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Stanislaus B.",
        "address": "sbocian at poczta.fm"
      },
      "date": "2009-03-30T20:00:56+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Explanation of bad translation of Latin Mottoes on Sundials.",
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          "text": "The explanation of bad translations of Latin Mottoes on Sundials:\n\nApparently, it is customary to paraphrase such mottoes, not to\ntranslate them correctly:\n\nSee: A book of sundial mottoes (1903) by Alfred Hyatt:\nhttp://www.archive.org/details/bookofsundialmot00hyatuoft\n\n\"In compiling this Book of Mottoes, the translations in the\nmajority of cases appear as given in the books consulted, \nThese volumes, which represent a delightful branch of garden \nliterature, range from John Wells' \"Sciographia, or the Art\nof Shadoews\" (1635), to Mrs. Alice Morse Earle's recently\npublished \"Sundials and Roses of Yesterday.\"\n\nIt will be seen that in many instances the English renderings\n of the inscriptions are free and often fanciful.\"\n\nAliis inserviendo consumor.\nMy loss is your gain.\n\nArs longa, vita brevis.\nI die today, and live tomorrow.\n\nAvaritia hodie dominatur.\nYou covet tomorrow.\n\nDies diem trudit.\nA day kicks me down.\n\nDum spectas fugio.\nUnsight, unseen.\n\nEn supra vita fugax\nEn infra certa mors.\nA life on flight's, soon out of sight.\n\nEx hoc momento pendet aeternitas.\nNow, or never."
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          "text": "Best regards,\nStanislaus B.\n\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\nA moze Volkswagen z Niemiec? Mamy ponad 180 000 ofert!\nSprawdz >>> http://link.interia.pl/f20e5"
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