I came across this first on "Yahoo Answers!" where the seeker-after-truth gave a lot of detail of how they found it, and the crest on the piece of paper on which it was written, and the apparent age of the paper. I rather got the impression that they thought it might be of some importance.

Is it important? You decide!

"Sibilli si ergo
fortibuses in ero.
Nobilli demis trux
sewatis enim?
Cowsendux!"

I am happy to provide a clue via pm if you are stuck and would prefer not to ask in public.

Here's another -

Caesar adsum iam forti
Pompey aderat
Caesar sic in omnibus
Pompey in is at

Some versions have Brutus rather than Pompey.

Or for those more comfortable with French...

Un petit dompté s’étonnait fol
Un petit dompté à dègrés fol
Or, de quinze heures seize
Et or de quinze semaines
Que, d’un peu dompté,
De guide. Eh! Guigne!

And the lovely Fred Wedlock song, to the tune of Gaudete:

Hartcliffe Way, Hartcliffe Way,
Christ it is nasty
I can't find a virgin in
Hartcliffe Way

Gloria in omnibus
Me homo erectus
Omnibus in terminus
Coitus interruptus...

It's alright, I've already got my coat.
*leaves*

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Someone cooking meat at the den of the fox said, "We do not mention this in front of the mongoose." Sumerian proverb

Outskirts Of The Twenties: Polari

Non-CS fic: Late Back (Good Omens)

Caesar sic in omnibus made me laugh .

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We really must stop eating like this ...

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

http://setinthepast.wordpress.com/

Yes, I know it with Brutus

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to be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e.e.cummings
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Me too but with a variant last line:

Brutus sic in at

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"Lack of planning on your part does not necessarily mean an emergency on mine"

"Association does not infer causality"

My Latin teacher at school never taught us any of those, even though he used to spend half of most lessons telling us funny stories which had nothing to do with Latin!

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''He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." Jim Elliot

I have come across the first rhyme but written in Spanish rather than Latin. It started Si Senor but I do not remember the rest.

I also have a German book called Morder Guss Reims.

Our German text book at school was "Sprich Mal Deutsch" - of which we always translated 'Mal' as it it were French.

I am familiar with both these works.
IIRC, at the beginning of "Sprich Mal Deutsch", according to the illustration, Vater is in the car, Paul(?) is still in bed & Mutti has given up and is in the oven.

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"Lack of planning on your part does not necessarily mean an emergency on mine"

"Association does not infer causality"