Passing the time one day, Kreipe began to recite some lines from Horace’s ode Ad Thalictrum. The Latin syllables caught his captor’s ear. “As luck would have it, it was one of those I knew by heart.” After the general had run out of steam, Paddy carried on through the remaining 40 lines to the end. “We got on rather better after that.” In 1972, an almost equally unlikely event occurred, when the pair were reunited on a Greek version of This Is Your Life.
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James Campbell, “Obituary: Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor”, The Guardian, 10 June 2011 (online), 11 June 2011 (print), p. 39
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/jun/10/patrick-leigh-fermor-obituary
