GR translation: the sus. per coll. crowd dangling

[Michael Bailey]

Which tells us something about the prevalence of hanging in olden times

But also something about the Slothrops, n’est ça pas?




On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> A-and the other sus per coll branches of the family tree were hanged for
> other offenses
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think the commas indicate that there was one witch in the Slothrop
>> family tree
>>
>> And that one witch was snazzily described as part of the sus per coll
>> crowd
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the reply, Mike.
>>>
>>> I do understand the abbreviation and the word play here. I was just
>>> wondering, since the phrase "dangling off of the Slothrop family tree"
>>> modifies "the sus. per coll. crowd,"it seems to imply that there were
>>> quite
>>> a number of his ancestors and remote relatives who were hanged to death.
>>> I
>>> guess that's because hanging was quite popular once upon a time.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi Mike -  from the web
>>> >
>>> > In the case of a capital felony, it is written opposite the prisoner's
>>> > name, "*let him be hanged by the neck*," which, when the proceedings
>>> were
>>> > in Latin, was, "suspendatur per collum," or, in the abbreviated form,
>>> "sus'
>>> > per coll'."
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > The sentence puns on being hung (dangling) from a tree and being on his
>>> > family tree.
>>> >
>>> > The sus. per coll. crowd are his ancestors who've been hung to
>>> death.Dangling is the last thing they all did.
>>> >
>>> > cheers
>>> > Mike
>>> >
>>> > On 11/01/2025 20:05, Mike Jing wrote:
>>> >
>>> > sus. per coll.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> --
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>>>
>>