t*t following strange sentence in Latin appears in the ' Irish World :—"Ave,ave, aye esse ayes." The translation is :—■" Hail ! grandfather ; do you wish to eat fish ?" The sentence is one of those catch sentences in which strange forms of the verb and other parti of speech are used for the. purpose of puzzling the reader, In this sentence esse is the second form of the infinite edo, ■
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 126, 1 October 1875, Page 14
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67Untitled New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 126, 1 October 1875, Page 14
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