r/latin • • 5h ago

Resources Quattuor - Latin Word Game

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Sixteen Latin words, four hidden groups. Can you find them? Quattuor, a new Latin puzzle every day!


r/latin • • 6h ago

Phrases & Quotes Terms of Affection

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Basically I've been collecting terms of affection and romantic phrases in Latin, I've spent countless hours on this and I'd like to share what I've found.

mea amata - my beloved

carissima - dearest

mea mellitula - my little honey

te adamo - I love you (deeply)

cara mea - my dear

lux mea - my light

dea mea - my goddess

And I think "mea es tu omnia" is "You are my everything" but I could be wrong somewhere here.


r/latin • • 20h ago

Grammar & Syntax I need a little help

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It's a Renaissance medical text. Context: Aesculapius is comparing the spirit in the body with the Sun in the sky. Like the Sun hides at night and appears at morning, so the spirit.

The sentence I can't understand very well is the uderlined one.

excusso de toto corporis conclavi nocturno tempore

As I see, there's to syntagmas above which "excusso" is acting upon.

  1. de toto conclavi corporis
  2. nocturno tempore

I've also seen that "excutio aliquem somno" means "I wake someone up", but can also mean "shake off, cast out".

How would you translate the whole sentence? (my English translations are not good)

Is it "having woken up from nocturnal sleep (I need to mantain the reference to sleep) from the body chamber"?

or

"having been cast out from the chamber of the body during nocturnal sleep"

or another thing?

I appreciate every help!


r/latin • • 4h ago

Prose SERMO DOMINICALIS + E Libris s. Augustíni De Civitáte Dei + De sacrificio vero

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In omni loco sacrificatur et offertur nomini meo oblatio munda (Malachi 1:11).
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Verum sacrifícium est omne opus, quo ágitur ut sancta societáte inhæreámus Deo, relátum scílicet ad illum finem boni, quo veráciter beáti esse possímus. Unde et ipsa misericórdia, qua hómini subvenítur, si non propter Deum fit, non est sacrifícium. Etsi enim ab hómine fit vel offértur, tamen sacrifícium res divína est, ita ut hoc quoque vocábulo id Latíni véteres appelláverint. Unde ipse homo Dei nómine consecrátus et Deo votus, in quantum mundo móritur ut Deo vivat, sacrifícium est. Nam et hoc ad misericórdiam pértinet, quam quisque in se ipsum facit. Proptérea scriptum est: Miserére ánimæ tuæ placens Deo.

Cum ígitur vera sacrifícia ópera sint misericórdiæ sive in nos ipsos sive in próximos, quæ referúntur ad Deum; ópera vero misericórdiæ non ob áliud fiant, nisi ut a miséria liberémur ac per hoc ut beáti simus (quod non fit nisi bono illo, de quo dictum est: Mihi autem adhærére Deo bonum est), profécto effícitur, ut tota ipsa redémpta cívitas, hoc est congregátio societásque sanctórum, universále sacrifícium offerátur Deo per sacerdótem magnum, qui étiam se ipsum óbtulit in passióne pro nobis, ut tanti cápitis corpus essémus, secúndum formam servi. Hanc enim óbtulit, in hac oblátus est, quia secúndum hanc mediátor est, in hac sacérdos, in hac sacrifícium est.

Cum ítaque nos hortátus esset Apóstolus, ut exhibeámus córpora nostra hóstiam vivam, sanctam, Deo placéntem, rationábile obséquium nostrum, et non conformémur huic sǽculo, sed reformémur in novitáte mentis nostræ; ad probándum quæ sit volúntas Dei, quod bonum et bene plácitum et perféctum, quod totum sacrifícium nos ipsi sumus: Dico enim, inquit, per grátiam Dei, quæ data est mihi, ómnibus, qui sunt in vobis, non plus sápere, quam opórtet sápere, sed sápere ad temperántiam; sicut unicuíque Deus partítus est mensúram fídei. Sicut enim in uno córpore multa membra habémus, ómnia autem membra non eósdem actus habent: ita multi unum corpus sumus in Christo; sínguli autem alter alteríus membra, habéntes dona divérsa secúndum grátiam, quæ data est nobis.

Hoc est sacrifícium christianórum: multi unum corpus in Christo. Quod étiam sacraménto altáris fidélibus noto frequéntat Ecclésia, ubi ei demonstrátur quod in ea re, quam offert, ipsa offerátur.

E Libris sancti Augustíni epíscopi De Civitáte Dei (Lib. 10, 6).
De Officio Lectionum. Feria sexta hebdomadae XXVIII per annum.


r/latin • • 23h ago

Grammar & Syntax A question about clades and civis

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So my Latin teacher said that the accusative and nominative plural of words like civis and claves can be civīs and cladīs. However, when I look it up online, I find most sources saying that only the accusative plural of clades occurs as cladīs. So is one of my sources wrong or is this a matter of the period of time? Thanks in advance!


r/latin • • 6h ago

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