I'd asked: >Can anyone tell me what this phrase - 'ex aequo' - means when applied to a >prizewinner in an international piano competition? And several people wrote, some privately, to tell me it means 'tied' for first prize, second prize, etc. I thank them all. But I must say I laughed long and hard at Jim Hunsley's creative translation: >How about "fresh from the [blood] bath?"! Scott Morrison