Sir, – There are some common Latin phrases included at the end of the article on the teaching of Latin (Peter McGuire, “One of Ireland’s last Latin teachers has retired. Is it the end of the line for a ‘dead’ language?”, Education, April 3rd).
These reminded me of a variation that’s sometimes heard: Veni, vidi, velcro: “I came, I saw, I stuck around”. – Yours, etc,
PAUL MURPHY,
Dublin 9.