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Fallaces sunt rerum speciaes. The appearances of things are deceptive.
So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')
The Romans, spring and early
When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.
[Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
Ave Dolce Vita, Rex Regum! Hail Sweet Life, King of Kings! We love you and we believe in you!
Correggio, Caravaggio, Titian, Tintoretto. In them she saw distance and cruelty. Bodies pierced, flayed, crucified. A parade of morbid flesh.
Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.
You, Roman, remember to rule peoples with your power. -Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento
Daybreak. Pope Pius II watches a fiery orb crest the Tiber. His mind drifts. He recalls that Aristotle's student Callippus once computed the seasons' duration, measuring the sun's movement within its ethereal sphere.
All I can say in my own defense is quot libros, quam breve tempus - so many books, so little time (and yes, I have the tee-shirt).
I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies.
[Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui
Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]
Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans on the edge of useless law; we pray to the giver of prayer, we give the cane whistle in ceremony, we swing the heavy silver chain of incense burners. Migration makes new citizens of Rome.
Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.
In Monterey, at the small airport rental agency, he hired a vomit-green Ford Tempo. It was an offense to his refined sense of color. The Tempo's tempo was satisfyingly allegro on flat roads but a bit adagio on the hills.
While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot.
[Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores.
Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]
In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men.
[Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]
The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.
[Lat., Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.]
Safety lies in the middle course.
[Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.]
Cruor pectoris mei, tutela tua est!
Blood of my heart, protection is thine!
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The changeful change of circumstances.
[Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.
Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (Thus passes the glory of the world).
Dei sub numine viget, Under God's power she flourishes
Ego non baptiso te in nomine ... but make out the rest yourself.
Give not reins to your inflamed passions; take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.
[Lat., Ne frena animo permitte calenti;
Da spatium, tenuemque moram; male cuncta ministrat
Impetus.]
Jeremias, my soul mate, I will forever love you.
The Tragic Historye of Romeus and Juliette
Since my high school years, I have been interested in history, especially in Roman history, a topic on which I have read rather extensively. The Latin that goes with this kind of interest proved useful when I had to generate a few terms and names for cell biology.
Quot libros, quam breve tempus - so many books, so little time
Upon her Center pois'd, when on a day (For Time, though in Eternitie, appli'd To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future) on such
Art for art's sake.
[Lat., Ars gratia artis.]
Speramus meliora; resurgret cineribus. We hope for better things; it will rise from the ashes,
Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith
Lauricia or Aurelia?
Ratio et prudentia curas,
Non locus effusi late maris arbiter, aufert.
[it is reason and wisdom which take away cares, not places affording wide views over the sea.]
Carpe diem."
(Odes: I.11)
Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things Virgil, Georgics, Book 2
Too slow, the wagons of years,
The oxen of days
too glum.
Our god is the god of speed,
Our heart
our battle-drum.
Alea iacta est. The die has been cast.
Ridendo dicere severum. (tr. Through what is laughable say what is somber.)
Niko's angular face caught a flicker of firelight and Tempus saw his future there: sharp purpose, discipline, and power in perfect balance; love of man and gods, and mercy transcending all. If war ever wore a more humane face, this one would make it so.
Exitus Acta Probat---the outcome justifies the deed.
And among them all Taurus Antinor, praefect of Rome, with his ruddy hair and bronzed skin, his massive frame clad in gorgeously embroidered tunic.
Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
I am old, I am fat, but I am still Tetrazzini.
Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.
The months have been good to Tiberias Calore. A life of war suits him. He seems vibrant and alive, even after narrowly escaping death on the walls.
Here and now was always where Tempus was, not off somewhere in the realm of Greater Good or Mortal Soul or Eternal Consequence. He'd lost the ability to determine greater good, if there was one; his mortal soul he'd given up on long ago. And as for eternal consequence - he was its embodiment.
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory.
[Lat., Horae
Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the
light chariot, and establish love.
[Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur;
Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.]
Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am /
And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.
Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.
The shame of fools conceals their open wounds.
[Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]
Prince Achilles! Aristos Achaion! As
And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty.
[Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.]
Ridendo dicere severum. (<>trong>trtrong>. Through what is laughable say what is somber.)
And this is our time-keeper, with a passion for percussion
Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.
Time, consoler of affliction and softener of anger
Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)
The word comes from Latin roots com and templum, "with" and "temple.
Smooth words in place of gifts.
[Lat., Dicta docta pro datis.]
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
[Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur.]
Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it.
[Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]
A just fortune awaits the deserving.
[Lat., Fors aequa merentes
Respicit.]
With graceful deviations in which caprice is blended with virtuosity
The innocent should never have to suffer from the battles of others. (Valerius) I know, but it seems to always be the case. (Acheron) A furore infra, libera nos - spare us from the fury within. (Valerius)
When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and mind and speech fail.
[Lat., Ubi jam valideis quassatum est viribus aevi
Corpus, et obtuseis ceciderunt viribus artus,
Claudicat ingenium delirat linguaque mensque.]
Ave Atque Vale
Hail and farewell
Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time.
I am Caesar not Rex
Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God.
[Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit
Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.]
At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.
Transit umbra, lux permanet
Quid confert animae pugna Hectoris, vel disputatio Platonis, aut carmina Maronis, vel neniae Nasonis? Of what benefit to the soul are the struggles of Hector, the disputations of Plato, the songs of Virgil, or the dirges of Ovid?
Time trieth troth in every doubt.
Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Si vis pacem, para bellum - If you want peace, prepare for war.
Taceant Colloquia. Effugiat risus. Hic locus est ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae. "Let conversation stop. Let laughter cease," Luke read aloud. "Here is the place where the dead delight to teach the living.
I have not always been as now:
The fever'd diadem on my brow
I claim'd and won unsurprisingly-
Hath not the same fierce heirdom given
Rome to the Caeser-this is me?
The heritage of a kindly mind,
And a proud spirit which hath striven
Triumphantly with human kind.
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
Pestis eram vivus ... moriens tua mors ero - Living, I was your plague ... dying, I shall be your death.
The venal herd.
[Lat., Venale pecus.]
I am not what I once was.
[Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]
Si Vis Pacem, Para Iustitiam: In order to have peace, you must first have justice.
I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.
It must not be claimed that anyone can sense time by itself apart from the movement of things. LUCRETIUS, De rerum natura1
The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent.
[Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]
Mortui vivis docent - the dead teach the living.
Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.
Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made.
This is the great evil in wine, it first seizes the feet; it is a cunning wrestler.
[Lat., Magnum hoc vitium vino est,
Pedes captat primum; luctator dolosu est.]
ora et labora, prayer and work.
Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?
In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke.
[Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]