The Haunted Boardinghouse: Translations

Alice Turner · 26 Jan 2000, 08:17 · from urth-v0028.mbox · original

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From: "Alice Turner" <pei047 at attglobal.net>
Subject: (urth) The Haunted Boardinghouse: Translations
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 08:17:12
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=46rom my classicist friend:
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Good heavens, that's a lot of Latin for one short story. What's the story?

Alis volat propriis. He flies on his own wings.

Ab imo pectore. From deep in the heart.

Usus magister est. Experience is a teacher (learning by doing).

[Soles occidere et redire posset] Nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, nox e=
st=20
perpetua una dormienda. [Suns may set and rise again]; for us, once the sho=
rt=20
light dies, one eternal night remains for sleeping. (Catullus V... the famo=
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"vivamus mea Lesbia atque amemus," with all the thousands of kisses). =20

Temporis ars medicina fere est. The healing art is essentially time.

Pax in bello. Peace in war.

Non exaequat victoria caelo. Victory does not make us equal to heaven [the=20
gods].

Nullam est librum tam malum ut non ex aliqua parte prodesset. No book is so=20
bad that it's not useful in some degree.

Omnia fert aetas, animum quoque. Age takes away everything, including the=20
mind. (Virgil, Eclogues IX.51)=20

Notitia linguarum est prima porta sapientiae. Acquaintance with languages i=
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the first gate of knowledge.=20

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. But teaching increases innate strength=20
(Horace, Odes IV.4)

Placidaque ibi demum morte quievit. Finally he (she) came to rest in peacef=
ul=20
death.

-alga

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