– Ave, Caesar, morituri…
– Cut that out, would you! It’s been fifty years since the seminar and you still insist on speaking in Latin? Useless Latin…
– Data venia, well it has helped me some…
– None of that! It’s only of interest to priests, lawyers,et caterva…
– Never mind, Cezar! What news? Nihil novi?
– They say that the President will govern manu militari…
– Lato sensu?
– No! He’s going to make these shameless people abide by the laws in totum!
– If it’s the law, one must comply! Dura lex sed lex!
– The government should worry itself with other things: verbi gratia, the matter of profit per capita…
– Speaking of profit, how goes your pro labore?
– Goes to zero. Ever since they named me secretary ad hoc, I feel like I’m working ad honorem!
– It’s a pity! And your brother, Gonicinha?
– Inter pocula! At this rate, he’s going to end up with delirium-tremens… The other day he was arrested in a brawl.
– He didn’t get habeas-corpus?
– He was fined, but they gave him a sursis. He’s still drinking though. He’ll only stop once he’s in articulo mortis!
– That’s why I don’t want anything to do with alcohol.
– And I idem!
– And what do you think of the new Congress?
– The same as the old: they only legislate pro domo sua!
– Proh pudor!
– Changing the subject, what’s that package there?
– Nothing important, an agenda and a vade-mécum…
– Books! I flee from them!
– Well I just finished expanding my library. I even ordered an ex-libris at the studio Lumen Christi…
– How luxurious! Later on you can send me a fac-símile
– And your wife, how is she?
– That woman is a saint…
– A saint? Ipsis verbis?
– Ipsis litteris: she lives her life praying and high flying…
– Yeah… to put up with the husband, she’ll need alot of prayer…
– Mutatis mutandis,husbands need to pray too you know.
– Ipso facto!
– Back pains, migraines, mother-in-law, balding…
– Et coetera…
– Especially the etc.!
– How the wives suffer!
– Rememberthe wedding? You think that those vows are just pro forma?
– …
– And that once you’re wed you can live ad libitum?
– …
– Marriage is rough!
– Vade retro!
– Very well, Cesar, let’s get going. In a little while there’s the game at the Mineirão. … Are you coming to see the Atlético’s play?
– I plan to, uponthe Miss’ad referendum
– I hope to see you in situ.
– At the doorway as usual. If I don’t show up, it’s because I’m laying intra muros!
– What about an alibi? I can telephone, summoning you to someone’s wake.
– It’s no use: Abignalda loves going to wakes. For now, it will all have to stay sub judice…
– In saecula saeculorum…
– Amen!
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