On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Alex Smith <ais...@bham.ac.uk> wrote: > First, I must point out that the caller's argument that the same > precedent would apply to Canti Cygnei (sorry about the dubious plural, > but the grammar of the original phrase is dubious in the first place)
What's wrong with it? Although the standard Latin term for "swan song" is, according to words, 'vox cycneus', there's no grammatical reason why 'cantus' couldn't substitute. However, the plural would be 'cantus cygnei'.
