Re: Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine

Ed Cryer wrote:
> 
> "Johannes Patruus" <invalid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>> It appears that Enoch Powell first uttered his Vergilian "rivers of 
>> blood" quotation in its original Latin during a speech at Walsall a 
>> few weeks before he notoriously repeated it in English at Birmingham.
>>
>> Journalist Chris Moncrieff is quoted as re****ting Powell having said 
>> that his "biggest mistake" had been to translate the passage into 
>> English.
>>
>> Source: http://tinyurl.com/5m4k9k
>>
>> Patruus
> 
> Ah! I find that hard to believe. It gave the tabloids a headline; but 
> the speech itself sounds even more inflammatory in these PC days than it

> did back then.
> This is it;
> http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/rivers_blood2.html
> 
> The Queen once used the phrase "annus horribilis" to describe her year. 
> (1992, I think, when, on top of family divorces and break-ups, Windsor 
> Castle caught fire.) But the tabloids didn't need to have that 
> translated; most of them headlined with it in Latin!

I seem to recall having heard that the person who furnished the Queen with

this latter expression admitted subsequently that "horribilis" was not the

mot juste, but I'm stapped if I can remember what he said it should have
been!

Patruus