Re: Latin help
| From: | ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 4, 2007, 3:52 |
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Adam Walker wrote:
I suspect the choice was
>made for matters of rythm. It sentence quoted is the
>last line of a translation of "I've Been Working on
>the Railroad." It doesn't match the last line as I
>learned it, but liberties are taken with such things.
>
I believe they sang that during the Saturnalia, or was it the Lupercalia?
But oh dear, memory time-- as a freshperson in high school a VERY LONG time
ago, I attended the year-end banquet of our Latin Club, held at the local
Ecclesia Methodista. We wore sheets as togae (quite a reasonable facsimile,
actually), and drank grape juice. Then there were the songs, one of which
you've now summoned up from the abyss of repression--
Nam vir est bonus beatus
(three times)
quod nemo negare potest.