Daily Latin

Odes Book 1 Poem 2.21 

… audiet pugnās vitiō parentum rāra iuventūs.

audiet: will hear

pugnās: battles, fights

vitiō: through the fault (of)

parentum: ancestors, forebears

rāra: scant, thinned, diminished

iuventūs: youth

… by the fault of his forebears, the diminished youth will hear of the battles. 

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Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales

Letter 76. 9 - 10 

Quid in homine proprium? Ratiō.

Quid: what

in: in

homine: man

proprium: characteristic

Ratiō: reason

What is characteristic of man? Reason.

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Aeneid, 2.12

Quamquam animus meminisse horret, luctūque refugit, incipiam.

Quamquam: although

animus: mind, spirit

meminisse: to remember

horret: shudders

luctū: with or from grief

-que: and

refugit: recoils

incipiam: I shall begin

Though the mind shudders to remember, and recoils from grief, I shall begin.

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Liber I.17

Cōnscius ipse sibi dē sē putat omnia dīcī.

Cōnscius: one who is aware

ipse: himself (nom.)

sibi: to himself (dat. sg.)

dē: about

sē: himself (abl. sg.)

putat: he thinks

omnia: all things

dīcī: to be said

Someone conscious of his own wrongdoing thinks all things to be said concern himself.

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Ep 2.1.117 

Scrībimus indoctī doctīque poēmata passim.

Scrībimus: we write

indoctī: the unlearned

doctīque: and the learned

poēmata: poems

passim: everywhere

We write poems everywhere, the unlearned and the learned alike. 

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Academica 1.16 

… ipse sē nihil scīre id ūnum sciat …

ipse: he himself (nom.)

sē: himself (acc.)

nihil: nothing

scīre: to know

id: this

ūnum: one

sciat: should know

… he should know this alone, that he himself knows nothing …

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Ep. 82.3

Ōtium sine litterīs mors est et hominis vīvī sepultūra

Ōtium: leisure

Sine: without

Litterīs: letters, literary learning

Mors: death

Est: is

Et: and

Hominis: of a man

Vīvī: living

Sepultūra: burial, entombment

Leisure without learning is death and the entombment of a living man.

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Ep. 26.10

Quī morī didicit, servīre dēdidicit.

Quī: who

Morī: to die

Didicit: has learned

Servīre: to serve, to be enslaved 

Dēdidicit: has unlearned

He who has learned to die has unlearned to be enslaved.

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Epigram LXX

Nōn est vīvere, sed valēre vīta est

Nōn: not

Est: is

Vīvere: to live

Sed: but

Valēre: to thrive, to flourish

Vīta: life

Est: is

Not to live, but to flourish, is life. 

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Tusculan disputations Book 5.5

Est autem ūnus diēs bene et ex praeceptīs tuīs āctus peccantī inmortālitātī antepōnendus.

Est: is

autem: but, for

ūnus: one

diēs: day

bene: well, good

et: and

ex: according to

praeceptīs: precepts, teachings

tuīs: your

āctus: spent, conducted

peccantī: sinning

inmortālitātī: immortality

antepōnendus: must be preferred

For one day lived well and according to your precepts must be preferred to an immortality spent sinning.

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