Hungarian physician Alexander Lenard spent seven years translating Winnie-the-Pooh into Latin: ‘Quid ergo est, Porcelle?’ dixit Christophorus Robinus lectulo exsurgens. ‘Heff,’ dixit Porcellus anhelitum ducens ut vix loqui posset, ‘heff — heff — heffalumpus!’ ‘Ubi?’ ‘Illic,’ exclamavit ungulam agitans Porcellus. ‘Qualum praebet speciem?’ ‘Sicut — sicut — habet maximum caput quod unquam vidisti. Aliquid magnum et immane — sicut — sicut nihil. Permagnum — sane, putares — nescio — permagnum nihil. Sicut caccabus.’ When it reached the New York Times bestseller list in 1960, the Christian Science Monitor wrote, “It is hard to conceive of a Latin work more calculated...