“Quomodo dicis latine life-jacket?” quipped one of the Latin-speaking passengers on a tour boat circumnavigating Manhattan on a rainy Sunday morning in May, just after the captain’s safety announcement. “How do you say life-jacket in Latin?”
Luckily, one of the greatest living experts in spoken Latin was on hand with the answer, instantly recalling the word used by the Roman poet Horace in his “Satires” about 2,000 years ago.
“Horace says, ‘When you grow up, nabis sine cortice’ – you will swim without a float, or a life-jacket,” said Father Reginald Foster, a Carmelite monk and priest.http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/05/23/usa-education-latin-idINDEE94M0FC20130523
