ANST - Latin Translation Requested

[Jane Sitton-Logan/James D. Logan]

Bonjour from Madelina de Lindesaye!

With all the noted scholars we have in Ansteorra, I am surprised no one has responded to
this query yet.  So I posed it to the Latin email list.  Here are the responses so far:

Joe Wolf wrote:

> I received the following in a message from a friend...
>
> SERO VENIENTIBUS OSSA
>
> I am assuming it is Latin.  Could one of the more erudite tranlate this for me, please?
> (And perhaps give me an appropriate Latin response/reply?)
>
> Many thanks!!
>
> Herr Manfred von Wolf
> Barony of the Stargate

Hope this helps.

>     From:
>           Nefle at aol.com
>  Reply-To:
>           latin at mlists.net
>

> >From Putman's Comlete Book of Quotations, Proverbs, and Household Words I
> found your quote given as a proverb and translated "Bones for those who come
> late."
>         lf
>
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>
>     From:
>           Steven Boozer <sboozer at midway.uchicago.edu>
>
> Does Putman's say what this means?  A variant of "The early bird gets the
> worm" or is it closer to "[If] You snooze, you loose"?
> _____________________________________________________________________
> Steven Boozer   University of Chicago Library   s-boozer at uchicago.edu
>
>     From:
>           Fred Zimmerman <fredz at mindspring.com>
>
>   As Latin for the Illiterati puts it: Only bones for all those who come
> late, meaning, First come, first served.

So far, no one has offered an appropriate come back.  Good luck.

Amicalement,
Madelina de Lindesaye

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