Translate please? » paxvox

Posted by Oddipus Rex on June 8, 2003, at 12:18:59

In reply to Re: Cho Mach! Very Good! briar roses opens her mouth., posted by paxvox on June 7, 2003, at 20:04:34

Put me out of my misery and translate please? I googled up Virgil's Aeneas Bk IX lines 184-187 and 193-196 but I can't find the lines in English. Something about making God out of our ***shudder** cupidity? Just guessing. My linguistic ambitions are focused on Esperanto at the moment. I don't understand why that never caught on. I was teaching it to myself as a child but I forgot about it for a few decades. Absent minded me. Did you learn Latin as a child or later on?

> Nisus ait: Dine hunc ardorem mentibus addunt, Euryale? An sua cuique Deus fit dira cupido? Aut pugnam, aut aliquid jamdudum invadere magnum, Mens agitat mihi! Nec placida contenta quiete est.
> Exposcunt: mittique viros, qui certa reportent. Si tibi, quae posco, promittunt (nam mihi facti fama sat est,)tumulo videor reperire sub illo posse viam ad muros et maenia pallentea.
>
> That's why I am known as Pax Vox!

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