Showing posts with label latin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label latin. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Porro Omnes Fulgemus

It has been a while since I have done anything in Latin so I have decided it was time for a 'Beatles' song translated. I heard this on the radio yesterday and wondered how it would sound it Latin (as one does). Did my best. Modern colloquial English does not translate well into Classical Latin.
Answer will be in the column on the right.

Porro omnes fulgemus

Statim Erinyes te puniturae sunt,
In caputem te sic percussurae sunt,
te ipsum ordinare moneris
Mox morieris

Mehercule, quid est quod putatis
Ridens Amor praesens,
Mehercule, quid est quod tempatis,
Est solus tu faciens.

Statim Erinyes te puniturae sunt,
In facies aspecturae sunt
Ocelle, te ipsum ordinare moneris,
Res humanae coniungaris,
Mehercule, quomodo videbis
Ridens ad stultam per se me?
Di Immortales, quis te aestimas esse?
Astram Praeclarum?
Hem, rectus est!

Sic omnes porro fulgemus
Instar luna et astra et sol
Sic omnes porro fulgemus
Agite Omne!

Statim Erinyes te puniturae sunt,
ab  pedibus perculsurae sunt.
noscere fratros tui moneris
Omnes convenis.
Di Immortales, cur hic sunt?
Certene vivere in dolore et metu?
Di Immortales, cur ibi es
Ut ubique es?
Age! Portionem nanciscere!

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Isidore, Chapter Six

In the 406th era, during the fifth year of the reign of Valens, Athanaricus I took up the governing of the Gothic people, ruling for 13 years, whom, having been moved to a very cruel persecution of the faithful, wanted to train himself against Goths, who had taken up Christianity among his people.  Those out of the many, who would not agree to offer sacrifices to idols, he made martyrs. Moreover these many persecutions affected the feelings of the rest of the Goths. While he might have shrunk from killing a great number of people, he had committed a sin. Indeed he was driven to go into exile from his own kingdom and migrated alone to the Roman provinces.

[The Goths took up the Arian form of Christianity, i.e. they believed the Son was subordinate to the Father, but Valens was also Arian so this was not a source of conflict between them. It is surprising that Isidore referred to the Arians as Christians when, officially, they were considered heretics and worse than pagans. Athanaric does not appear to have been styled as a 'king' but as a 'judge'.]

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Ashes to Ashes

...and dust to dust.... Most of you would be able to finish this line. Usually there is a little poem that I read on a bathroom wall which pops into my head. It tells what would happen to male appendages if there were no women.
      Sometimes, to practice my Latin, I read the Vulgate Bible. Last week my eye fell on Genesis 3:1:19 "In sudore vultus tui vesceris pane, donec revertaris in terram de qua sumptus es: quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris.""By the sweat on your face you will eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you have been taken: because you are dust and you will return to dust." Indeed Adam means 'man' or 'humankind' but it is said to have derived from adameh, 'earth, dirt' or 'dust'. This fact was used to full effect by Phillip Pullman in his Golden Compass series as 'dust' was a creative and animating force that was draining away from the worlds into Chaos. In theory, we are made of stardust.
     It is times like these that I wish I had stuck to my Ancient Greek studies because I cannot read Greek (or Hebrew). It would be nice to see what the original phrase in the Old Testament had been. Obviously it had been translated into Greek from Hebrew and then into Latin and, often as we have seen in the telephone game, things get lost along the way. However the Hebrew word that has been translated as 'dust' is aphar, which means (from Strong's Hebrew) 'dry loose earth, material of human body, surface of ground, powder of anything pulverized, debris, earth of the grave, mortar, iron ore, material of earth'.
      I suppose many generations of very learned people have seen no reason to change the translation from dust but I have to wonder if 'iron ore' would be better because ore is transformed into the better and more useful iron and iron is such a strong component of our blood. However the choice reflects funerary practices of the time.
      We get 'pulverized' from 'pulvis', which means 'dust' but also specifically 'dust from a destruction (and applied esp. to the remains of a dead body or meton. to a departed spirit)'(Oxford Latin Dictionary). Already in classical Roman times, there was a verb pulvo derived from the noun. Ancient peoples often sprinkled ashes and/or dust over the dead. Antigone was buried alive as punishment for defying her king in sprinkling a handful of dust over her dead brother so that his spirit could depart. Many pre-Christian cultures practiced cremation, hence the ashes, although I suspect cremation occurred primarily where wood was plentiful.
     Most modern English words are derived from French and therefore Latin, as French displaced English as the language of the kings following 1066 a.d., but some few common English words survived and 'dust' is one of them, unchanged by time. 'Dust' it was in the tenth century and 'dust' it is in medieval Icelandic, Old Frisian, Middle High German, according to Bosworth-Toller. 'Pulverized' does sound better for utter destruction than 'having being dusted'.

Monday, October 29, 2012

The Other 'F' Word: Fart

     One thing that people often find more fascinating than where common phrases and words come is where the naughty words or 'not polite' words come from. After all, 'passing wind' can be referred to by its medical name (another 'f' word) flatulence, which comes from the Latin (as do many medical terms when they are not derived from Greek) flatulentus(a slow wind?) by way of the French or by its common name 'fart'.
      Flatus, the Roman word , is a masculine noun meaning blowing or wind and flatus emittere means sending out wind or farting (which appears in Suetonius as a synonym to crepitus ventris.). However the Romans also had another name for farting: the verb pedo, pedere, pepedi and the part participle, which also could be used as a noun for the thing, peditum. (which the French use commonly, peter)  Clearly the word 'fart' did not come from the Romans.
     As modern German has a similar sounding equivalent 'furz' which sounds like 'farts', our word must be derived from the Germanic Old English. Indeed, one glance at the Oxford English Dictionary shows the OE equivalent is 'feortan' and the earliest reference to it is as 'feorþing' in Aelfric's Glossary, which is very difficult to find in its entirety. I have been unable to find out why Aelfric included it in his glossary which he glossed as 'pedatio' but Bosworth Toller defined as 'crepitus ventris', due to Suetonius, which is idiomatic as 'fart' for the Romans, according to the Oxford Latin Dictionary (and Suetonius). My, they had a lot of words for this! Crepitus ventris is loosely 'a clattering, groaning or noise of the belly'. I would really love to see Aelfric's Glossary to see if he really wrote 'pedatio' because Lewis and Short does not contain this word and the Oxford Latin Dictionary does not either. So, it was not a Roman word, they used peditum, but it could have been a regional Medieval variant.
     The Cleasby-Vigfussun Old Icelandic Dictionary has a related word in it because you know the Vikings would have a word for fart and it is 'fretr' a masculine noun and a verb 'freta'. It also includes a nice compound for a vagabond: fret-karl, fart-man.
     I have wind on my mind since I am sitting here awaiting the arrival or effects of Hurricane Sandy.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

More Latin

It is possible one could google some of these phrases From 'The Name of the Rose' and find them online as they appear to be from psalms that might well still be in use.

page 101 at the beginning of chapter "Matins"

"Domine, labia mea aperies et os meum annuntiabit laudem tuam"

"Lord, May you open my lips and my voice will proclaim your praises."

followed by "Venite exultamus" "Come. Let us rejoice"

and "Deus qui est sanctorum slendor mirabilis." "God who is the wonderful brilliance of the saints."

"Iam lucis orto sidere" I had to google this one and it is just as well because it is a fragment and 'sidere' is not the infinitive of a verb nor would supplying a form of 'esse' make it make sense.
"Now in the glory of the light having dawned."

On page 94 of chapter 'Compline', Eco wrote that the monks only used rape oil and olive oil. Most people might not know that canola was once called 'rapeseed'. Of course that name does not sell the oil and 'canola' itself is an acronym for a specially bred type of rapeseed - Canadian oil seed, low acid". Rapeseed came from the latin for 'turnip' since they are relatives being both 'brassicae'. Cultivation for oil seems to have begun around the Rhine in the Middle Ages and more northern regions since olive trees do not grow there.

Friday, September 7, 2012

Latin in The Name of the Rose

I have to wonder with all the latin that I am seeing in this novel if it bothered people with no Latin at all that none of it is translated. I guess it gives the novel the aura of authenticity but surely it could have been translated in footnotes or brackets. I am not going to translate them all but, if someone comes across this blog and finds a phrase that they really want to understand and Google translate or Babelfish is not working for them, they can post a comment and I will do my best to translate it for them. My edition is a Harcourt paperback, translated into English by William Weaver.
There is a long Latin piece on pages 62-63 which I shall translate now.

"Quorum primus seraphico calculo purgatus et ardore celico inflammatus totum incendere videbatur. Secundus vero verbo predicationis fecundus super mundi tenebras clarius radiavit"

"The first of these having been cleansed by the seraphic stone and burned by the celestial fire seemed to burn up entirely. The second fertile one, in truth, gleamed more brightly by the word of his preaching upon the darkness of the world."

And then Ubertino said "yes, these were the promises: the Angelic Pope must come" So the first sentence refers to the Anti-Christ and the second is Jesus come again(?). At last Ubertino said "Mors est quies viatoris - finis est omnis laboris" or "Death is the repose of the traveller - is the end of all labor." Life is a journey not a destination.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Take That!

This fall I looked at a folio reproduction of The Domesday Book, thinking that, since I can read Latin fairly well, at last I can read things like The Domesday Book. And then, I opened the page and found that, although it was indeed written in Latin, it was written in Latin shorthand, which, alas, I cannot read. Some day I will, but not today.
I noticed a lightening bolt mark over many abbreviations that looked like Harry Potter's scar. Would it not be a hoot if this is where Rowling got the lightning bolt from rather than from runes? I do not know what this mark represents but I do know what all those 7's that I saw were: the Tironian shorthand for 'and'. Tiro, Cicero's slave and secretary, did not invent the ampersand, that is the '&'. Using '7' for 'and' was not a problem in Roman times since they wrote seven like this 'VII'.
I am familiar with one other bit of Latin shorthand, although until recently I did not know it was a Latin abbreviation, and that is 'Rx' for prescription drugs. That R with the slash on the leg that looks like an 'x' stands for 'recipe', which is the imperative form for 'recipio, recipere' and means 'take'. Back in the old days when paper or parchment was expensive and hard to come by, people tried to squeeze as much as they could onto whatever paper they had. Ingredients or directions for medicines always started with the instruction 'take' and so the abbreviation was common on prescriptions since they all started in the same way. As I keep saying: you know more Latin than you think.

Sunday, September 5, 2010

The Ending of Godot

I got tired of writing 'taciturnitas' in this piece.

Vlad: Nuntium de Godoto habes?

puer: Ita vero, domine.

Vlad: Non veniet illa nocte.

puer: Minime, domine.

Vlad: Sed veniet cras.

puer: Ita vero, domine

Vlad: Sine dubio.

puer: Ita vero, domine.

Taciturnitas

Vlad: Conveniesne quis?

puer: Minime, domine.

Vlad: Duum alium (dubitans) virum?

puer: Non vidi aliquis, domine.

Vlad: Quod facit, ille Godotus? (taciturnitas) Me audis?

puer: Ita vero, domine.

Vlad: Et?

puer: Nihil facit, domine.

taciturnitas

Vlad: Quid tuum fratrem agit?

puer: Incidit morbum, domine.

Vlad: Fortasse quia hoc venit heri.

puer: Non scio, domine.

taciturnitas

Vlad: (molliter) Barbam habet, Godotus?

puer: Ita vero, domine.

Vlad: Candidam aut (dubitat) atram?

puer: Credo est canam, domine.

Vlad: Christus nos misereat!

taciturnitas

puer: Quod dico Godotum, domine?

Vlad: Eum dices (dubitat) eum dices, me vidisti et quod (dubitat) me vidisti (pausam, Vlad appropinquat, puer resilit, Vlad - cessat, puer cessat. Cum violentia subita) Certus es me vidisti? Non venies et cras me dices quem me nunquam vidisti?

taciturnitas. Vlad facit subitum saltum prorsus. Puer refugit et currens abit. Taciturnitas. Sol occidit, luna oritur. Sicut in Primo Actu. Vlad stat sine motu et flexus. Estragonus excitat, caligam detrahit, surgit cum una in utraque manu et venit eas in medio frontis ponit, tum ad Vladimir venit.

Estragonus: Quid es tecum?

Vlad: Nihil.

Estragonus: Discedo.

Vlad: Etiam

Estragonus: Somno longe?

Vlad: Non scio. (taciturnitas)

Estragonus: Quo vadamus?

Vlad: Non procul.

Estragonus: Ita vero. Veniamus hoc procul.

Vlad: Non possimus.

Estragonus: Cur non?

Vlad: Redeundi erimus cras.

Estragonus: Cur?

Vlad: Manere Godoto.

Estragonus: Video (taciturnitas) Non venit.

Vlad: Non

Estragonus: Et nunc nimis tardum est.

Vlad: nunc nox est.

Estragonus: Et si demittamus (pausa) Si eum demittamus?

Vlad: Nos puniat. (taciturnitas. Aspicit arborem) Omnis mortuus est praeter arborem.

Estragonus: (Aspicit arborem) Quod est?

Vlad: Est illa arbor.

Estragonus: Ita vero sed quotum genus?

Vlad: Non scio. Salix.

Estragonus trahit Vlad ad arborem. Stant adversi arborem. Taciturnitas.

Estragonus: Cur non nosmet suspendeamus?

Vlad: Cum quod?

Estragonus: Non habes funum?

Vlad: Non habeo funum.

Estragonus: Tum non possumus (taciturnitas)

Vlad: Veniamus.

Estragonus: Mane. Meum cingulum est

vlad: Nimis breve est.

Estragonus: Detrahas mihi crures.

Vlad: Et quis detrahat mihi crures?

Estragonus: Verum

Vlad: Utique monstra. (estragonus solvit funiculum quam atollit bracas quas nimis magnus pro eum, cadit ad talis. Spectant funiculum.) Efficiat in re dubia. Sed satis durus est?

Estragonus: Videbimus mox. Hoc (utrique tenent funum funiculi et trahunt. Frangitur. Paene cadent)

Vlad: Non aestimatur pretium maledicti. (taciturnitas)

Estragonus: Dicis cras rursus veniendi sumus?

Vlad: Ita vero.

Estragonus: Tum poterimus apportare partem bonam funis.

Vlad: Ita vero. (taciturnitas)

Estragonus: Dide?

Vlad: Sic?

Estragonus: Agere sicut hoc non possum.

Vlad: Hoc est quod cogitas.

Estragonus: Si separamus nos. Fortasse melior pro nos erit.

Vlad: Cras nos suspendemus. (pausam) Nisi Godotus venit.

Estragonus: Etsi venit.

Vlad: Servabimur. (Vlad amovet petum. (Felicis) intuetur, tentat intus. id quassat, pulsat petum, imponit suo capiti iterum)

Estragonus: Et? Agemusne?

Vlad: Indue bracas.

Estragonus: Quod?

Vlad: Indue bracas.

Estragonus: Vis mihi exungere bracas?

Vlad: Indue bracas.

Estragonus: (sentiens bracas caditur) Verum (Induit bracas)

Vlad: Et? Agemus?

Estragonus: Agemus.

Non movunt.

finum



Friday, September 3, 2010

More Godot

from pages 38-39. I am really working the subjunctive and passive periphrastic in this piece.

Vladimir: Tum cur te verberavere?

Estragonus: Non scio.

Vladimir: Non, Gogone, veritas est ut sunt quae quod me non fugit et te fugit. Tibi sentiendum es.

Estragonus: Te dico me nihil egerim.

Vladimir: Fortasse nihil agebas, sed est in modum agentis quod valet, in modum agentis, si vis continuare viventem.

Estragonus: Nihil agebam.

Vladimir: Etiam laetandus es, ad profundum, si modo id scies.

Estrasonus: Laetor de quod?

Vladimir: Rursus es mecum iterum.

Estragonus: Sic dicas?

Vladimir: Dic, es, etsi non verum est.

Estragonus: Quid mihi dicendum est?

Vladimir: Dic, sum laetus.

Estragonus: Laetus sum.

Vladimir: Quoque.

Estragonus: Quoque.

Vladimir: Laetamur.

Estragonus: Laetamur. (taciturnitas) Quod nunc facimus? Nunc laetamur.

Vladimir: Manemus Godoto.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Manendo Godoto

via rustica. arbor.
vesper.

Estragonus, in tumulo parvo sedens, cothurnum abdere conatur. Id tractat cum utreque manu, anhelitus. Dedit, defessus, quiescit, iterum conatur. Perinde prius.

Estragonus: (Dedens iterum) Nihil factum est.
Vladimir: (prodiens, passibus rigidis et lentis, crura haud tangenta) Incipio illa sententia pervenire. Totis vitis, conatatus eram de me deponere. Aiens - Vladimir, prudens sis - omnis nondum conatus es et contendere iterum incipi. (considerat, cogitans certamine, se vertit ad Estragono) Hic rursus es.

Estragonus: Sumne?
Vladimir: Gaudius sum te reversum videre. Putavi ut in omne tempus abisses.

Estragonus: Velut putavi.

Vladimir: Omnes ad unum denique! Hoc celebraturi erimus! Sed quomodo? (cogitat) Surge quoad te complectar.

Estragonus: (iracunde) Non nunc faces. Non nunc.

Vladimir: (offensus, gelide) Licetne mihi rogare ubi ille rex quieverat?

Estragonus: In fossa.

Vladimir: (admirans) In fossa! Ubi?

Estragonus: (sine gestu) Ibi.

Vladimir: Te non verberavere?

Estragonus: Me verberavere? Ita vero, me verberavere.

Vladimir: Eidem ut soliti sunt?

Estragonus: Eidem? Non scio.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

There Is Always a Reason

I was curious as to why Mr. Harris chose scrofula as Vatinius' disfiguring ailment. Short of writing him a letter, and assuming he would reply, know why he chose that, or has notes that would help him figure out why, I must do my own detective work and make the best guess available.
I used the Perseus site to peruse texts that refer to Vatinius but most of the ones that interested me were not readily available in Latin on that site. Cicero made a very long speech in the Senate called In Vatinium against Vatinius where he makes reference to Vatinius being denied augership. He also refers to the disfigurement in his letters to Atticus and in one to Brutus. What word did he use in In Vatinium? "Ista quae sunt inflata" or those disgusting things which are swollen. The English translation at Perseus rendered 'ista' which is a pronoun into the word 'wen'.
Catullus came to my aid, good ole Catullus. He wrote a poem, now called 52 but at the time was called In Novium, in which there is a line calling Nonius 'a giant boil sitting on the curule chair'(my translation) and accusing Vatinius of perjury. Who is Nonius and what exactly is a struma anyway? So I looked in my pocket dictionary The New College Latin and English Dictionary. It also includes Late Latin and Neo Latin so it has been useful for some Medieval texts. In this dictionary, struma means 'tumor, swollen gland'; however just after this entry is strumosus which means scrofulous.
Not content with this, I got out the granddaddy of Latin dictionaries, the Oxford Latin Dictionary, because it has only classical Latin and some etymology plus where words occur in Latin texts. I love a good dictionary. I should have gone to this one first as nearly all the entries where struma occurs also contain the name Vatinius. There is nothing like being famous for all time for a giant boil on your neck.
The OLD defines struma as 'a swelling of the lymphatic glands'. Strumosis is 'afflicted with glandular swellings'. This requires now a look at the Oxford English Dictionary and, indeed, scrofulous comes from a Medieval Latin word 'scrofula' which means an enlarged lymph gland. Maybe struma is scrofula but there is more reason that one for enlarged lymph nodes. Scrofula is derived from scrofa, which the OED states is latin for 'breeding sow which were deemed subject to this disease'. Struma was equated with goiter, bronchocele or scrofula at the earliest in 1400 in Lefranc's Cicurgie. So whatever dictionary, if he was conducting his research in the original latin texts, he used may have been like my pocket dictionary - spoiled with Medieval Latin terms - or whatever translation he used of those texts had been spoiled with Medieval Latin terms.
The OLD lists In Vatinium 39 "si...strumae ab ore improbo demigrarunt et aliis iam se locis conlocarunt"(if those tumors migrate from your shameless face and now lodge themselves in other places), Letters to Atticus 2.9.2 "licet....Vatini strumam sacerdoti vestiant" (it is permitted that priests adorn the glandular swellings of Vatinius) and Celsus V.29.2"struma est tumor, in quo subter concreta quaedam ex pure et sanguine quasi glandulae oriuntur...nascuntur maxime in cervice, sed etiam in alis et inguinibus" ( A struma is a tumor, in which arises under certain curdling from pus and blood just like of a small gland.... it is borne mostly in the neck but also in other private parts.) Most English translations of these texts call struma 'scrofula'. Pliny's Natural History is full of references to scrofula including how to cure it with weasel's blood. So Harris is not wrong to say that Vatinius had scrofula but I wonder if later translators had been duly diligent in naming the disease or just followed what previous translators had done.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Beatles Song of the Week (Alan Parsons Project Really)

A tribute to Alan Parsons Project. Eric Woolfson died last month.

Si est difficilius factu in dies aspicere,
Noli sinere id retegi,
Quavis est difficilius factu quod dicunt audire,
Sine id transire solum, sine id transire solum.

Et si te doleat ubi me nominent,
Dic me non cognosces,
Et si te iuvat ubi in culpa sum dicunt,
Dic me non tenes.

Etiam si viam expeditum foris capeat,
Serva intra te,
Noli tradere,
Noli ullum eis dicere,
Noli sinere,
Noli sinere id retegi.

Etiam si scias alienum dicere est,
Dic non cures, dic non cures,
Etsi velis credere viam est,
Ibi non ero, ibi non ero,
Sed se tutemet subrideas ubi me nominent,
Numquam te cognoscent,
Et si tutemet rideas ubi in culpa sum dicunt,
Numquam te tenent.

Etiam si sentis tutemet nihil celare habes,
Serva intra te,
Noli tradere,
Noli ullum eis dicere,
Noli id sinere,
Noli id sinere retegi.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Utrimque Nunc

This is a Joni Mitchell song sung by Judy Collins. I thought it would be fun to try but it was challenging too.

Sicut nodos et flumenibus crinum angelorum et castella gelidorum cremorum in aethere,
Et convallebus plumis ubique.

Nimbos is hoc modo contemplata sum.
Sed nunc solum solem opplent,
Pluit et ningit in quemque.
Tantum res fecissem sed nimbi me obstruxissent.

Utrimque nunc nimbos contemplata sum,
Ab supera et infera et etiam quomodocumque
Est vana nimborum memini,
Verum scio nimbos haud.

Sicut Lunas et Junium et delectamenta, modo saltando vertiginoso quod sentis,
Sicut omnia fabula vera fit, amorem in hoc modo contemplata sum,
Sed nunc alium spectaculum est. Eos ridentes relinques ubi ages,
Et si cures, noli cognoscere licere, noli tutemet prodere.

Utrimque nunc amorem contemplata sum,
Ab donando et sumendo et quomodocumque,
Est vana amoris memini,
Verum scio amorem haud.

Sicut lacrimae et timores et sentiens superbiam ut "te amo" conclamam,
Somniis et consiliis et turbis circorum, vitam in hoc modo contemplata sum.
Sed nunc amici veti se peregrinos agent, ei capitum quatiunt, mutata sim dicant,
Aliquid percat sed aliquid mutetur in vivente per diem.

Utrimque nunc vitam contemplata sum
Ex victo et amisso et etiam quomodocumque
Est vana vitae memini
Verum scio vitam haud.

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Santa, baby!

I think a little Latin goes well with Christmas, don't you?

Sancte, bone, sub arbore pellem pone pro me
Bonissimam fueram,
Sancte, bone, sub noctem caminum deorsum rue

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Beatles Song in Latin

Omnes surgamus et a carmen quod erat gratiosum saltemus,
Priusquam tua mater nata est,
Quamquam nata est duitissime,
Tua mater sciat - tua mater sciat.
Id iterum canite,

Cordes vestra levate et me carmen quod erat gratiosum canite,
Priusquam tua mater nata est,
Quamquam nata est duitissime,
Tua mater sciat - tua mater sciat.
(iterare)

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Beatles Song of the Whenever

Dimidium de qua dico significationem non habet.
Sed dico te capere ______,
______, Oceanitis,
Cano cantum amora,
____, oculus concha, risus ventoso, me vocat.
Crinis ea caeli pendentis splendet,
Micat,
In sole,
___, ____, luna mane, me tange,
Quando de cora mea non canere possum,
De meo mente loquar.
____, arena dormiens, nimbus taciens,
Cano cantum amora,
hum, hum, hum, me vocat,
Cano cantum amora......

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Beatles Song of the Whenever

Alicubi in montibus nigris.......
Vixit puer cui nomen est Saxosus Satyricus.
Et, una die, mulier aufugit cum alio viro,
Icet Saxoso parvo in oculo. Non placet Saxoso.
Dixit 'vindicabo in illo puero".
Et, una die, ambulat in oppidum,
Adipisci cubiculum in caupona.
Saxosus Satyricus in cubiculum ivit,
Solum librum Gideonis invenit.
Saxosus venierat cum telo paratus erat.
Concidere crures rivalis.
Rivalis, ut videtur, concidit somnos,
Per surripendum puellam prolubi ei.........

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Beatles Song of the Whenever

Inter totum diem est - ego, me, meus,
ego, me, meus, ego, me, meus
Inter totum noctem est - ego, me, meus.
Nunc id reliquendi metuunt,
Omnes id texunt,
Totum temporis potente agunt.

Inter totum diem est - ego me, meus,
Ego, me, meus, ego, me, meus.
Totum quod possum audire est -
Ego, me, meus, ego, me, meus.
Et illae lacrimae sunt - ego, me, meus,
Nemo metuit de id ludendo, omnes id dicunt,
Vino liberius fluunt.

Inter totum diem est.......

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Beatles Song of the Week

Nunc ipsam os videram, tempus non obliviscor
Aut locum unde nunc ipsam convenimus,
Puellam ipsam mihi est et volo totum mundum visurum,
Convenimus.

Si dies alia fuisset, spectavissem alium locum,
Et nemo fuissem sciens sed cum est,
Somniabo eae hodie nocte.

Incipiens, ita vero amare incipio
Atque iterum me revocat.

Numquam scivi aliquid simile, solus fui et omissi res,
Et mansi invisibilis propter aliae puellae numquam fuerunt melior ea.

Incipiens, ita vero amare incipio,
Atque iterum me revocat.........

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Beatles Song of the Week

In picturis movendis me ponere agunt,
De me magnam stellam facere agunt.
Picturas movendas de viro, quo tristi et solo est, faceamus.
Et omne quod habeo dicere est agere naturale.

Ponam te quod magnam stellam esse ago,
Vincam lauream, numquam dicas,
Picturae movendae magnam stellam me facere aunt,
Propter simulem partes ita bone.

Spero quod me in picturis movendis venis et vides,
Tum scio quod videbis clare,
Fatuum optimum quem unquam prospare,
Et omne habeo dicere est naturale agere.