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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Bede | | Latin term or phrase: rediit | Greetings,
I'm looking for the exact force of rediit here – what’s bothering me is that if Augustine returned to the task of the Word he must have strayed before but I don't think such a thing happened. Could it have something to do with the suffix “re” sometimes referring to a source, to authenticity (e.g. in the English word "recourse" rather than just "back", "again")?
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/bede/bede1.shtml
ROBORATUS ergo confirmatione beati patris Gregorii, Augustinus cum famulis Christi, qui erant cum eo, rediit in opus uerbi, peruenitque Brittaniam.
All the best, and many thanks,
Simon |
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I think "recourse" is very close too, as in "to have recourse to sg. / to do sg.". For sure "redeo" does not need to have happened before, f.ex:
"ad gladios redierunt" = "betook themselves to their swords", not necessarily returning to it. I believe it's very similar with "redeo in ..."
Or, sometimes it's translated as "call upon somebody/something", definitely without any reference to repetition, f.ex. Cicero: Letters to Atticus (see links)
Honestly I'm not sure what you mean with "source" or "authenticity", I see it more as necessity, it just had to happen sooner or later, so it came on to happen on the spot, right than and there. |
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Explanation:
I think "recourse" is very close too, as in "to have recourse to sg. / to do sg.". For sure "redeo" does not need to have happened before, f.ex:
"ad gladios redierunt" = "betook themselves to their swords", not necessarily returning to it. I believe it's very similar with "redeo in ..."
Or, sometimes it's translated as "call upon somebody/something", definitely without any reference to repetition, f.ex. Cicero: Letters to Atticus (see links)
Honestly I'm not sure what you mean with "source" or "authenticity", I see it more as necessity, it just had to happen sooner or later, so it came on to happen on the spot, right than and there.
Reference: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:19...
Reference: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:19...
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