Vitruvius (De Architectura 10.2): Alligatur in summo trochlea, quem etiam nonnulli rechamum dicunt. The pulley block, which some also call rechamus, is fastened at the top. This mysterious word rechamus appears to be very rare, and I would quite like to know its etymon. [For trochlea.]
Also tagged rechamus, translation, trochlea, VitruviusHorace, against time hallowing all things (Epistulae 2.1): ScrÄ«ptÅr ăb|hÄ«nc Än|nÅs cÄ“n|tÅ«m quÄ« | dÄ“cÄdÄt, | Ä«ntÄ“r pÄ“rfÄ“c|tÅs vÄ•tÄ•|rÄ“squÄ• rÄ•|fÄ“rrÄ« | dÄ“bÄ•t ăn | Ä«ntÄ“r vÄ«lÄ«s | ÄtquÄ• nÅ|vÅs? Ä’x|clÅ«dÄt | jÅ«rgÄă | fÄ«nÄ«s. The author who passed away a hundred years ago—should he be placed among the perfect and the ancient, or among the […]
Also tagged abhinc, dactylic hexameter, finis, Horace, translationCaesar, invading Britain in 54 BC (De Bello Gallico 5.17): Sed meridie, cum Caesar pabulandi causa tres legiones atque omnem equitatum cum C. Trebonio legato misisset, repente ex omnibus partibus ad pabulatores advolaverunt, sic uti ab signis legionibusque non absisterent. But at noon, when Caesar had sent three legions and the whole cavalry to forage […]
Also tagged absisto, Caesar, translationLivy reporting the speech of a soldier (Ab Urbe Condita 25.6): Non solum a patria procul Italiaque sed ab hoste etiam relegati sumus, ubi senescamus in exsilio ne qua spes, ne qua occasio abolendæ ignominiæ, ne qua placandæ civium iræ, ne qua denique bene moriendi sit. Not only were we sent far away from our […]
Also tagged aboleo, ignominia, Livy, translationMark Antony to Cicero (Ad Atticum 14.13a): Occupationibus est factum meis et subita tua profectione ne tecum coram de hac re agerem. Quam ob causam vereor ne absentia mea levior sit apud te. It happened that because of my business and your sudden departure that I couldn’t pursue this matter with you in person, so […]
Also tagged absentia, Cicero, Mark Antony, translationCicero on haruspicy (De Divinatione 2.16): Caput est in iecore, cor in extis: iam abscedet, simul ac molam et vinum insperseris; deus id eripiet, vis aliqua conficiet aut exedet. There is a ‘head’ in the liver, a heart among the entrails. It may immediately disappear as soon as you have sprinkled on the groats and […]
Also tagged abscedo, caput iecoris, Cicero, haruspicy, mola, translationCicero on untimely deaths (Philippica 2.46): Etenim, si abhinc annos prope viginti hoc ipso in templo negavi posse mortem immaturam esse consulari, quanto verius non negabo seni! Indeed, if nearly twenty years ago—in this very temple—I said there could be no such thing as death being premature for someone who has been consul, how much […]
Also tagged 1st century, abhinc, Cicero, death, happiness, Seneca, translationCicero comparing governments (Ad Atticum 2.9): Etenim si fuit invidiosa senatus potentia, cum ea non ad populum sed ad tris homines immoderatos redacta sit, quid iam censes fore? After all, if the power of the Senate was unpopular, then what do you think it will be like when it has passed, not to the people, […]
Also tagged Cicero, immoderatus, senatus potentia, translationCicero on sending word (Ad Atticum 11.23) Ipsum Agusium audies, sed tardius iter faciebat. Eo feci ut celeriter eunti darem. You’ll be hearing Agusius himself, but he was making his way rather slowly, so I’ve arranged to give [the news] to someone moving faster. The comparative shows itself here to be more flexible in Latin […]
Also tagged celeriter, Cicero, comparatives, translationCicero on rigged elections in Sicily (In Verrem Secunda 2.52): Herodotus cum Roma revertitur, diebus, ut ipse putabat, XV ante comitia, offendit eum mensem qui consequitur mensem comitialem, comitiis iam abhinc XXX diebus factis. When Herodotus returns from Rome, on what he was thinking was fifteen days before the comitia, he’s shocked to find it’s […]
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