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Correct. I haven't been able to work out whether/how much they've modernised him. Tim Send a noteboard - 07/07/2012 12:07:51 AM
It's titled as being his translation, so they might have just updated the spelling and left all the old-fashioned tenses as they are. From what I gather from the introduction, the first translations in all the major European languages were based on his, so he probably was the first.
Vigilantibus non dormientibus jura subveniunt.

—Nous disons en allemand : le guerre, le mort, le lune, alors que 'soleil' et 'amour' sont du sexe féminin : la soleil, la amour. La vie est neutre.

—La vie ? Neutre ? C'est très joli, et surtout très logique.
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