foliis stillantia mella decusserit
English translation: took away the honey flowing from the leaves
| 09:15 Oct 25, 2007 |
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| 3 +1 | will have shaken the dripping honey from the leaves |
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| 3 | took away the honey flowing from the leaves |
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| 1 | constant dripping wears away the stone |
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constant dripping wears away the stone Explanation: Haven't done latin for 30 years, so this is a guess. Follis is a leather bag, stillantia is something to do with dripping, mella is a groove. Perhaps it literally says something like dripping from a leather waterbag carves a groove. |
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took away the honey flowing from the leaves Explanation: I'm passing through Italian to reach English, which is not my mother tongue (and, moreover, I've just a beginner's Latin to Italian dictionary here), so please use this just as a starting point... Anyway: Hinc = hence (more or less) est = it is quod = what Saturnius is a God - the king of the Golden Age, I think (or was it the Silver one? I can't remember) The rest I happened to find on my dictionary, and just made a rough translation from Italian into English. BTW, it is not a verse but an excerpt from "The Georgics" - and I *seem to remember* that the author is referring to the end of the Golden (or Silver?) Age, when the God took away some of the gifts that made human life easy and sweet, forcing men to begin a life of labour and hard work. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2007-10-25 10:44:51 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- By "I happened to find on my dictionary" I meant that I found the whole sentence you posted - "foliis stillantia mella decusserit" - as an exemple of the use of the verb "decutio" (shake) |
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peer agreement (net): +1will have shaken the dripping honey from the leaves Explanation: Just putting my oar in - too late, I know, but I was intrigued by this. Virgil Georgics I line 131 has only 'mellaque decussit foliis' so I am wondering where your phrase comes from? 'decusserit' is actually 3rd person singular of future perfect of 'decutio'. |
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