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    Seneca on the way

    08/05/2025 | 2 mins.
    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
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    Virgil on fated vengeance

    07/05/2025 | 2 mins.
    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
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    Ausonius on winning

    06/05/2025 | 4 mins.
    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
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    Statius on dignity and justice

    05/05/2025 | 2 mins.
    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
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    Lucretius on how to live

    04/05/2025 | 3 mins.
    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

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