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Studying Latin to get the day started & came across the word "blandus"--apparently it means "pleasant" or "soothing" in Latin and meant the same in English until it took on its new figurative meaning of "dull".
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The text I'm reading is the Distichs of Cato with a commentary by Erasmus of Rotterdam.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dist…
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Studying wargaming, the Crusades, and Latin primary sources from the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
No one is ready for the $COQ crusade.
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Ecclesiastes Gallorum 3:14
didici quod omnia opera quae fecit Gallus perseverent in perpetuum non possumus eis quicquam addere nec auferre quae fecit Gallus ut timeatur
I know that, whatsoever $COQ doeth, it shall be for ever; nothing can be added to it, nor any thing taken from it; and $COQ hath so made it, that men should fear before Him.
timeo.
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Institutio Gallorum retweeted
"This gentle $COQ for solace of his Life,
Six Misses had beside his lawful Wife;
Scandal that spares no King, tho' ne'er so good,
Says, they were all of his own Flesh and Blood."
Love to see powerful $COQ poetry that brings to light often overlooked issues of the roost: $COQ-breeding.
If the $COQ community must survive by incestuous means, so be it--but the goal is always to bring in new blood.
This translation of Chaucer's poem "The $COQ and the Fox" by John Dryden was published in 1700 so note that something that looks like an "f" without a full crossbar is actually an "s".
Check out the full poem in the link provided by @igallorum in 2nd tweet in the thread. Worth a serious & meditation.
Studying "The $COQ and the Fox"--Chaucer translation by John Dryden
Dryden popularized the convention that English sentences should not end in prepositions likely because Latin sentences cannot end in prepositions (silly convention imo, but reason is interesting & latin-pilled)
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Studying "The $COQ and the Fox"--Chaucer translation by John Dryden
Dryden popularized the convention that English sentences should not end in prepositions likely because Latin sentences cannot end in prepositions (silly convention imo, but reason is interesting & latin-pilled)
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link to full work at proper page 223 where "The $COQ and the Fox" starts:
archive.org/details/fablesan…
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