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Group 174: Latin

 

2247. Cum amamus, tum perimus.

2248. Omnia praetereunt.

2249. Adeunt etiam optima.

2250. Optima citissime pereunt.

2251. Pecuniae citissime pereunt.

2252. Amare et mare sunt idem, in utroque multi pereunt.

2253. Non coeunt contraria.

2254. Ab equis ad asinos transeunt stulti.

2255. Intereunt feles, celebrant convivia mures.

2256. Menti quolibet ire licet.

2257. Nemo quemquam ire prohibet publica via.

2258. Non licet omnibus adire Corinthum.

2259. Blanda venire Venus, tristis abire solet.

 

Study Guide

 

2247. When we love, then we perish. (The saying is from Plautus, and refers to the perils of passion, when love makes you lose your powers of judgment.)

2248. All things pass away. (The complete line of verse from Columbanus reads as follows: Omnia praetereunt, fugit irreparabile tempus.)

2249. The best things are yet to be. (Note the use of optima, a neuter plural substantive, "the best things.")

2250. The best things pass away the most quickly. (The adverb citissime is the superlative form of the adverb cito, "swiftly.")

2251. Money perishes most quickly. (Compare the variant form, pecuniae citissime percurrunt.)

2252. Love and the sea are the same thing; in both of them many perish. (I cannot figure out how to capture the word play between Latin "love" and "sea", amare and mare.)

2253. Opposites do not come together. (You can find this saying in Seneca.)

2254. Fools go from horses to donkeys. (You can find this saying in Erasmus's Adagia, 1.7.29.)

2255. The cats die; the mice hold a party. (This is like the English saying "when the cat's away, the mice play" - but in this saying, the cats are gone for good!)

2256. The mind may go where it wills. (You can find this saying in Ovid.)

2257. No one may forbid anyone from going along the public road. (You can find this saying in Plautus.)

2258. It is not given to everyone to go to Corinth. (Corinth was a notoriously expensive tourist destination in the ancient world. You can find a variation of this saying in Horace.)

2259. Venus is accustomed to arrive sweetly, to leave sadly. (You can find a variant in John Owen: Laeta venire Venus, tristis abire solet.)

 

 

 

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