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Thread #98133   Message #1939666
Posted By: DMcG
17-Jan-07 - 02:05 PM
Thread Name: Can't sing for Toffee
Subject: RE: Can't sing for Toffee
My headmaster was a priest who, when we sang 'Gaudeamus igitur', was quite happy to translate it all for us, except the lines 'Vivant omnes virgines/Faciles, formosae', which he simply refused to explain.

I still don't know why, really, but I assume it's that 'faciles' that bothered him.