cogito ergo sum
I think, therefore I am
Three short Latin offerings…
My first submission is a translated limerick, a five-line poem with a rhyme and a smile included
A smiling maiden astride a tiger, borne on a stroll, on return the tiger is smiling
virgo subridebat
vecta tigre
externa profecta
interna revecta
et tigris subridebat
On offer, is the long-standing Latin student’s lament, always found in English
Latin is a dead language, first it killed the Romans now it kills me
The poem’s second stanza continues the dread
who wrote it, all are dead
who learned it, all are dead
My rendering is in the best tradition of school-yard doggerel
discipuli Latinorum lamentationum
lingua Latina est ominino mortua
primo, ea Romanos necavit
nunc, me necat
qui ea locuti sunt, omnes mortui sunt
qui eam scripserunt, omnes mortui
qui eam didicerunt, omnes mortui
examines fortunate, id meruerunt
My final token is decades old from foreign travel. Since many Christian orders of monks and nuns have a tradition of making own wines, beers, and liquors…
Enjoy, on drinking and being saintly…!
qui bibit, dormit
qui dormit, non peccat
ergo
qui bibit sanctus est
cogito ergo sum
I think, therefore I am
Three short Latin offerings…
My first submission is a translated limerick, a five-line poem with a rhyme and a smile included
A smiling maiden astride a tiger, borne on a stroll, on return the tiger is smiling
virgo subridebat
vecta tigre
externa profecta
interna revecta
et tigris subridebat
On offer, is the long-standing Latin student’s lament, always found in English
Latin is a dead language, first it killed the Romans now it kills me
The poem’s second stanza continues the dread
who wrote it, all are dead
who learned it, all are dead
My rendering is in the best tradition of school-yard doggerel
discipuli Latinorum lamentationum
lingua Latina est ominino mortua
primo, ea Romanos necavit
nunc, me necat
qui ea locuti sunt, omnes mortui sunt
qui eam scripserunt, omnes mortui
qui eam didicerunt, omnes mortui
examines fortunate, id meruerunt
My final token is decades old from foreign travel. Since many Christian orders of monks and nuns have a tradition of making own wines, beers, and liquors…
Enjoy, on drinking and being saintly…!
qui bibit, dormit
qui dormit, non peccat
qui non peccat, sanctus est
ergo
qui bibit sanctus est