I bought the Oxford Latin Desk Dictionary from Amazon last summer, thinking it would be equal to the quality of the Oxford Concise German and Spanish dictionaries that I like so much. Well, the "Desk Dictionary" is more-or-less worthless, so my struggles with it this afternoon inspired me to write a critical review on Amazon, and to order a Cassell's Latin Dictionary (which I hope is like the one I used to have).

I'm guessing "depressum elabitur" is going to mean something like
"sad feelings are expressed."

It's a rather entertaining rhyme scheme, but I think it makes for some fairly obscure Latin. In the first verse, every line but the last ends with a verb in the passive voice, third person singular. This is Polish college student Latin, not Cicero.

Oy.

-Joe-