Re: Translation question

DOUGLAS KOLLER <LAOKOU@...> wrote:

>A resend, since my last message was dated last year:
>
>Hi Ray --
>
>Sorry to call on your Latin expertise again; as my school's "Latin expert",
>I ought to be able to do this on my own, but my high school Latin plus
>Cassell's dictionary is failing me.
>
>The math teacher gave the students a cryptogram, which, apparently, they
>were able to decipher, but unable to translate (strange, that). He fobbed
it
>off on me. I have no idea since the grammar, for me, dissolves mid-
sentence.
>Here's the quote:
>
>"Faber est suae quisque fortunae addius Claudius caecus dictum arcanum est
>neutron."
>
>A translation and a demi-parse, please?
>
>One gets the impression this is a famous quote but... What's 'addius'? Why
>is Claudius leaping about in the sentence? Is this something Newton said?
>Etc, etc, etc...
>
>Thanks for any help you can proffer.
>
>Kou

Wow.
The first five words of that quote seem to be the motto from my high school
in Sydney..."each is the maker ("architect :P") of their own fortune".
It seems to be from Appius Claudius, Epistle I it appears.

Oh well, I know that wasn't directed to me, but... :P

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