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    What Latin phrase translates as "Do not speak ill of the dead"?

    Question #70138. Asked by darkpresence. (Aug 27 06 5:27 PM)


    peasypod

    		"De mortuis nil nisi bonum" springs to my mind.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_mortuis_nil_nisi_bonum

    Aug 27 06, 5:30 PM
    zbeckabee

    		De mortuis nil nisi bonum

    Do not speak ill of the dead.

    But if you do, don?t worry about a defamation suit.

    http://www.stcl.edu/faculty_pages/faculty_folders/steiner/defamation/defamation/tsld009.htm

    Aug 27 06, 6:12 PM

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