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translating a quote
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ive got a quote that i need translating into latin.. will anybody be able to help?
It is...
"Learn from yesterday,
Live for today,
Dream for tomorrow."
Thanks in advance
It is...
"Learn from yesterday,
Live for today,
Dream for tomorrow."
Thanks in advance
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I should have pointed out in my response above that I do not expect Cicero or Catullus would ever have expressed the thoughts as I did!
In other words, I make no claim for it to be 'correct' Latin...rather it is just the appropriate words strung together. I am far from certain that the 'day' words are in the correct case-form, for example, which should be dative. I am aware, though, that the learn/live/dream words are certainly imperatives...ie instructions/orders to do these things...and not just nouns.
Perhaps someone who really knows will come along to tidy it all up for me. I last sat in a Classics classroom fifty years ago and the old memory is far from infallible!
(Thanks for another kind comment, Ethel, but it may be less than fully justified!)
In other words, I make no claim for it to be 'correct' Latin...rather it is just the appropriate words strung together. I am far from certain that the 'day' words are in the correct case-form, for example, which should be dative. I am aware, though, that the learn/live/dream words are certainly imperatives...ie instructions/orders to do these things...and not just nouns.
Perhaps someone who really knows will come along to tidy it all up for me. I last sat in a Classics classroom fifty years ago and the old memory is far from infallible!
(Thanks for another kind comment, Ethel, but it may be less than fully justified!)
If you get an accurate answer soon, Villers, do come back here and tell us what it was. Schools close for the summer in a day or two - assuming you are in England - so make sure you catch your old teacher before he disappears for a month in Kephalonia!
(Your version certainly sounds better than mine, C!)
(Your version certainly sounds better than mine, C!)
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