Livy, Ab Urbe Condita 10.40: “Di in prœlio sunt,” inquit; “habet pœnam noxium caput.“ “The gods are in this battle,” he said. “The guilty head has received its punishment.” It feels righter here to put habet as “has received” here rather than “has”. I have a vague idea that this isn’t the first time I’ve […]
Also tagged 1st century BC, habeo, translationA short one — Livy, Ab Urbe Condita 24.1: Itaque Regio extemplo abscessum est. And so they left Reggio immediately. There are two cities in Italy called Reggio, or R(h)egium in Latin: Reggio nell’Emilia in the north and Reggio di Calabria in the south, at the toe of the Italian boot.  The latter is the one being referred […]
Also tagged 1st century BC, translationLivy, Ab Urbe Condita 2.23: Sabino bello ait se militantem, quia propter populationes agri non fructu modo caruerit, sed villa incensa fuerit, direpta omnia, pecora abacta, tributum iniquo suo tempore imperatum, æs alienum fecisse. He said he served in the Sabine War and that he had not only lost his harvest on account of the pillaging, […]
Also tagged 1st century BC, abigo, 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 […]
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