Showing posts with label Juvenal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Juvenal. Show all posts
Tuesday, 2 June 2015
A Greek word known from the Greek of a Latin speaker
Marcus Aurelius has κοινονοημοσύνη (1.16[.2]), which is a hapax in the TLG. Several Latin authors use ἀκοινονόητος, which is not found in any Greek text in the TLG. LSJ translates aptly through the medium of French lacking in 'savoir-faire' (Lat. sensus communis).
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Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Incarceration
Some quotations of note:
"Prisons are not to be warehouses for the incorrigible, but to be greenhouses to restore the redeemable."
-- Rt Rev James Jones
"We build jails for people we're afraid of and fill them with people we're mad at."
-- Pat Nolan
Read on.
A happier age:
felices proavorum atavos, felicia dicas
saecula, quae quondam sub regibus atque tribunis
viderunt uno contentam carcere Romam.
"... Rome content with just one prison."
"Prisons are not to be warehouses for the incorrigible, but to be greenhouses to restore the redeemable."
-- Rt Rev James Jones
"We build jails for people we're afraid of and fill them with people we're mad at."
-- Pat Nolan
Read on.
A happier age:
felices proavorum atavos, felicia dicas
saecula, quae quondam sub regibus atque tribunis
viderunt uno contentam carcere Romam.
"... Rome content with just one prison."
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
Farrāgo -inis f.
Farrago is the title of a journal written by Cambridge Classics students. It ran from 1966 to 1988 and features articles by many of today's most prominent scholars .
When a cache of issues was passed to the graduate community in the middle of July 2007, a great deal of excitement and joy ensued, as well as a plan to revive Farrago as a blog, which would survey the vintage material and present contemporary contributions of a similar vein.
The Latin word refers to animal fodder which consisted of a mixture of inferior grains (so OLD). It was also used figuratively to refer to a medley or hotpotch. It is perhaps best translated by the German 'mischmasch'.
Its best known occurrence is in Juvenal's description of his own project (perhaps, his 'special pigeon') in lines 85-86 of his first satire:
When a cache of issues was passed to the graduate community in the middle of July 2007, a great deal of excitement and joy ensued, as well as a plan to revive Farrago as a blog, which would survey the vintage material and present contemporary contributions of a similar vein.
The Latin word refers to animal fodder which consisted of a mixture of inferior grains (so OLD). It was also used figuratively to refer to a medley or hotpotch. It is perhaps best translated by the German 'mischmasch'.
Its best known occurrence is in Juvenal's description of his own project (perhaps, his 'special pigeon') in lines 85-86 of his first satire:
quidquid agunt homines, uotum, timor, ira, uoluptas,
gaudia, discursus, nostri farrago libelli est.
Nowadays libellus would have acquired the sense 'blog'.
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