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> Subject:       R: Latin motto
> Date:          Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:42:23 +0100

> This is a possible translation:
> <Like life no day without a line> 
> ( with the double meaning of wrinkle on our face and line on the dial )
> Notice that DIES in latin is feminine, and NVLLA is related to DIES , not to
> LINEA ....
> 
These words were assigned by Plinius the Older in his
book ``Historia naturalis'' to Apelles of Colophone,
the town in Asia Minor. Apelles was a painter and these words
treated as a rule for himself.

Best regards
Krzysztof Kotynia
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