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Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language by Nicola Gardini

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Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language by Nicola Gardini

Author:Nicola Gardini
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2016-05-04T23:00:00+00:00


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[…] quique a me morte revelli

heu sola poteras, poteris nec morte revelli. (IV.152–53)

[…] and you, whom death alone could steal

from me, you can be stolen not even by death.

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Quae quia mendaci parientem iuverat ore,

ore parit […] (IX.322–23)

Because with her deceitful mouth she had helped a woman give birth,

she gives birth from the mouth […]

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[…] Lugebere nobis,

lugebisque alios […] (X.141–42)

[…] You will be mourned by us,

you’ll mourn for others […]



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