by Sven » October 30th, 2006, 8:31 pm
heh, Beppo, you may be assuming a more classical education than I at least have. For the benefit of those of us that don't have Latin, could you (or anyone) give us a translation of the important bits?
Oh, and by the way, if your correspondent Kestutis forgot to mention it, what he emailed you is page 274 of Johann Jacob Hofmann's Lexicon Universale, an encylopedia published in Germany in 1698.
Rat! he found breath to whisper, shaking. Are you afraid?
Afraid? murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love.
Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet -- and yet -- O, Mole, I am afraid!
Then the two animals, crouching to the earth, bowed their heads and did worship.