Et ego mihi pro certo scire videbar Zodiacon esse...Verbis tuis denuo diligentissime perpensis, o vir tenebrose, fieri non potest quin scribam:
Orbem signiferum, cui Zωδιακὸν breve nomen,
Ante oculos posuit mens tibi, amice, sagax.
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Responsum patet Anglice!Ora duodecim habemus...
Tute nobeis dice quid siemus, sapiens coniector.
Aw, crap. I think I multiplied one time too many. I can't even remember what number I had in mind. I got distracted trying to make the meter work & the Latin music on the radio.The numbers don't seem to add up, though, but it's my best guess...
Do you routinely address females as laddy? Shouldn't it be lassie?Ay, laddy.
I see.Aw, crap. I think I multiplied one time too many. I can't even remember what number I had in mind. I got distracted trying to make the meter work & the Latin music on the radio.
At any rate, you're turnum ist.
Hah! It shouldn't be either. You're my elder & I must therefore call you only 'Madam' or 'Your Holy Reverence(sse)'.Do you routinely address females as laddy? Shouldn't it be lassie?
Equidem puto, o vir dolose, si in tempore hoc legissem, me furta tua deprehensurum fuisse.....Responsum patet Anglice!
Tale ut sequatur, (3x12) < 42?42 pips, 12 faces times 3 is 36?
Sorry, I don't know what you're talking about.Nonne aliquis arithmeticam respexerit meam?
Tale ut sequatur, (3x12) < 42?
Recte quidem.Di meliora...!
Videtur esse Bermuda sive Diaboli Triangulum.
Non intellego quid dicere velis.Nonne aliquis arithmeticam respexerit meam?
Tale ut sequatur, (3x12) < 42?
In the sum of all the 'black eyes' (lumina nigra), i.e. 'pips'. There are 21 eyes per die, meaning 42 total. I said ter totidem saltem, to mean 'at least three times as many (as 12, that is 36).Ubi in duobus talis invenias triginta sex?
The maths, I intend to show, are right. Two dice have a combined total of 12 faces & 42 pips. 42 is more than three times the sum of faces (i.e. 36), hence the saltem.If it's any relief to you, I wouldn't have got your puzzle even if the maths had been right ... and that although I sort of knew I had to look for an English word in the last line