Re: Quick question: latin translation

 --- Cian Ross <cian@...> wrote: > On
Wednesday 27 November 2002 02:44 pm, Pavel Iosad
> wrote:
> > >         Under the trees, we live.
> > My first quick guess would be
> > Sub arbores, incolimus
>
> I think you need the ablative case here...sub
> arboribus.
agreed on |sub arboribus|, but i'm not clear what the
original sentence means. why the comma ? and what does
'live' mean ?

for 'we dwell under the trees' would probably be |sub
arboribus incolimus| or some such, but 'we live our
lives under the trees' would be |sub arboribus
vivimus| or some such

you might also want to think about whether 'under the
trees' should be translated by |sub arboribus| or
should be taken as an idiom and translated by
something like |inter arboribus| 'amongst the trees'.
you could even say |silvatici vivimus| 'we live our
lives as forest people'

bn

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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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