haud ovis ile , haud palma (no [sheep] guts, no glory.) If you really want to go for the pun, haud ile, haud palma works, but whether there was a Roman association between actual intestines and 'guts' is beyond my paltry four years of study (35 years ago).
ray On 10/23/07, Ron Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had thought David meant 'No intestinal fortitude, no acclaim' > > But I would go along with the notion that without gut strings there is no > glory. > > Could this become the motto for the elite of our lute-players? > > What's that in Latin? > > Ron (UK) > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: LGS-Europe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 12:47 PM > To: Edward Martin; [email protected] > Subject: [LUTE] Re: lute reaches mases > > > No guts no glory? > > Come on Ed, of all the glorious lute jobs in the world (...). Of course I > used gut strings! I had 20 guts on my lute. Not a fishing line in sight. > > David > > > > > You of all people did not use gut? > > > > What strings did you use - fishing line? > > > > > > > > At 08:26 AM 10/23/2007 +0200, LGS-Europe wrote: > >>Last Saturday I had to play my lute during a royal baptism here in the > >>Netherlands. 850 people in church, cool enough, but it was live on tv. The > > >>newspaper writes 787000 people watched. That's a large audience for a > >>lute. > >> > >>David - No guts no glory. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>**************************** > >>David van Ooijen > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>www.davidvanooijen.nl > >>**************************** > >> > >> > >> > >>To get on or off this list see list information at > >>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >> > >> > >>-- > >>No virus found in this incoming message. > >>Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: > >>269.15.6/1086 - Release Date: 10/22/2007 7:57 PM > > > > > > > > Edward Martin > > 2817 East 2nd Street > > Duluth, Minnesota 55812 > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > voice: (218) 728-1202 > > > > > > > > > > >
