Posted by Adam Quinan on June 29, 2011 at 09:19:42 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Roger's Latin posted by Elizabeth Jolley on June 28, 2011 at 14:41:59:
Googling revealed that a quote from Notes and Queries Number 188, June 4, 1853 very like Roger's was quoted as being a typical inscription in English schoolboys' books. (My free translation based on my last having studied Latin even longer ago than Captain Flint!).
Hic liber est meus This book is mine.
Testis est Deus. As God witnesses
Si quis furetur Whoever steals it
A collo pendetur Will be hanged by the neck
The only difference was the last line which read in somewhat more Latin terms "Ad hunc modum." or "In this way" but again followed by a drawing of a gibbet, just as Roger added one to Missee Lee's book.