Reginald Foster
Today we were expecting someone’s arrival and had just mentioned his name when he walked in the door. When we might have said, “speak of the devil, and he will appear”, Reggie said “Lupus in fabula”, literally, “wolf in the story”. Consult a good dictionary under the entry for either lupus or fabula. To hear Reginald read from Cicero’s letter to Atticus, 13, 33 where Cicero uses this expression, click on the following link:
