| Edward Lear | trans. Timothy Adès |
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There was an Old Person of Sparta, Who had twenty-five sons and one daughter; He fed them on snails, and weighed them in scales, That wonderful person of Sparta. |
o pasta proles fotaque cochleis! examinabas in Lacedaemone post quinque vigintique natos, mire Lacon, trutina puellam. |
Trans. copyright: Timothy Adès