WRONG!!!

After all these decades? 

Behold a dead Dalek.
 
For lo these many year I've believed, since I've never heard any other version, that the phrase is/was "Morituri salute".

That is - until I went to check the spelling today:-
"As the toga-wearing combatants face each other across an unforgiving circle of sand, they turn toward their laurel-wreathed eminence, snacking on grapes, and bellow: 
“Ave, Imperator: Morituri te salutant!”

This staple of swords-and-sandals fiction, the gladiator’s salute to his Emperor, in fact likely never happened.  Only a handful of Roman historians, long after the fact, mention the phrase — literally, “Hail, Emperor, those who are about to die salute you” — and there’s little indication that it was in common usage in gladiatorial combat or any other games in ancient Rome.

Nonetheless, “Morituri te salutant” has gained considerable currency in both popular culture and academia."

It happened/was seen shortly after an attack of the Hooleys - BUT - since it's happened before, and is in a gap twixt fence and Greenhouse, I'm leaning towards galloping instability.  
I try to "mine" compost from the bottom and, as a rule, before I get across the full width of the base, this happens.  I suspect that I undermine sufficient to allow the mined portion to drop and create the collapse by shifting the C o G.  I must have been both younger, and fitter, when I erected it; in fact I was - 13 or so years ago I was a mere youth of 66.   I had forgotten I must have lifted over the fence around the Greenhouse as you can see how much too wide it was.  And NO I can't dismantle it, that's just the "Door" removed to make the lifting easier.

IF/ when it's reassembled, it'll be outside Greenhouse enclosure.

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