Re: CHAT: Boredom is the mother of all arts.

 --- Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> skrev:
> Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> > For reasons best left undisclosed, I needed to
> translate the title of this mail
> > into Latin; I came up with _Tedium mater artium
> omnium est_. I'd appreciate if
> > the latinophones on the list tore it to bits.
> >
> >
>      Andreas
>
> Taedium mater omnium artium est.  Note the
> diphthong!
> --
>
Yes, but isn't it a bit odd that some neutral noun
will be the mother of something ?

Maybe something like:

"De taedio omnes nascuntur artes" ?

(don't throw things at me ! I'm a very bad Latinist.
Nevertheless, I think that putting the verb in the
middle of the phrase "omnes artes" looks very elegant.
I'm almost sure Cicero might have said something like
that).


=====
Philippe Caquant


Ceterum censeo *vi* esse oblitterandum (Me).