Daily Latin

The Stoics and Epicureans agree philosophy is the way.

Philosophiae servias oportet, ut tibi contingat vera libertas.
It is necessary that you must serve philosophy, so that you may gain true freedom.

Philosophiae: to philosophy
Servias: may you serve, you must serve
Oportet: it is necessary
Ut contingat: so that it may happen
Tibi: to you
Vera libertas: true freedom

Virgil prophesies Carthage’s avenger.

Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor
May someone arise, an avenger, out of our bones

Exoriare: may you arise
Aliquis: someone
Nostris: our (abl. pl.)
Ex ossibus: from (our) bones
Ultor: avenger

Ausonius shows battles won without weapons, or anything else really.

Armatam vidit Venerem Lacedaemone Pallas.
“Nunc certemus,” ait, “iudice vel Paride.”
Cui Venus: “Armatam tu me, temeraria, temnis,
quae, quo te vici tempore, nuda fui?”
Minerva saw Venus armed in Sparta.
“Now let us fight,” she said, “with Paris as judge, even.”
To whom Venus: “reckless are you to scorn me, now I am armed, 
I, who at the time when I last defeated you, was naked?”

Armatam: armed
Vidit: she saw
Venerem: Venus
Lacedaemone: in Sparta
Pallas: Pallas Athene / Minerva
Nunc: now
Certemus: let us compete
Ait: she said
Iudice vel Paride: even with Paris as judge
Cui: to whom
Te: you
Me: me
Temeraria: reckless
Temnis: you scorn
Quae: who, which, that (relative pronoun)
Quo … tempore: at the time when
Te vici: I defeated you
Nuda fui: I was naked

Statius on the power of dignity and justice.

Vade, atra dature supplicia, extremique tamen secure sepulcri.
Go, you who are destined to suffer dark punishments, yet without fear of your final tomb.

Vade: Go!
Atra: black, gloomy
Dature: about to give, suffer
Supplicia: punishments
Extremi sepulcri: of the final tomb
Tamen: yet, nevertheless
Secure: without fear, safely

Lucretius on how to live in the world.

Quod siquis vera vitam ratione gubernet, divitiae grandes homini sunt vivere parce aequo animo; neque enim est umquam penuria parvi.
That if anyone should govern their life with true reason, there are great riches to a man who may live simply with a calm mind; for indeed one lacks not, who has little.

Quod: but, because, that
Siquis: if anyone
Vera: true
Ratione: reason
Vitam: life
Gubernet: should govern
Divitiae grandes: great riches
Homini sunt: are to a man
Vivere parce: to live frugally, simply
Aequo animo: with a calm mind
Neque enim: for indeed not
Est umquam: as ever
Penuria: poverty, lack
Parvi: of little