alright, so Augustine in his sermon 362 is commenting on Paul's bit in Corinthians about the distinction between flesh and body.

Ne ad talia nos resurrecturos crederemus, qualia secundum primum hominem corruptibiliter agebamus, subjecit statim: Hoc autem dico, fratres, quia caro et sanguis regnum Dei haereditate possidere non possunt. Atque ( Read more... )

ut cor eorum dissolveretur et sensus transmutaretur

sed nec cor eius dissolutum est nec sensus anime transmutatis

Gregory VII says, in 3.12 of the Register, that if Bishop Pibo of Toul does not get his act together, "non solum in anima sed in corpore ipsius principis apostolorum digna ultione for puniendum." What exactly does it mean to be punished in one's body by St. Peter?

Ok, this Latin is so mind-numbing that it's making me want to go read Cleanness instead.  Et ne prebende vel officia ecclesiastica vendantur.  (I can't sort this grammar exactly, though I guess I am getting the basic idea.)  Or fifty pages of God being violently driven out of his "mode" by the fleshly sins of mankind.  Oy. Choices, choices ( Read more... )

Comes sancti Egidii excommunicetur propter uxorem.

But which one?

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Dear Latin Fairy,

I have no idea how you pulled that off, but I take back everything mean I ever said about you.  That quiz grade was a *miracle.*  Nice goblet of virgin's tears coming right up.

love,

me

hic haec hoc

I feel like a character in The Once and Future King.

Nunc.

Oy.  This Latin translation shit is killing me.  It takes me SO LONG.  But actually, I think it's easier than Anglo-Saxon. The only reason I get anywhere quicker with A-S is because I know more vocab in it (though, to be fair, knowing 17 words for "warrior" and "sword" might not really count as separate vocab).

My conference paper not only needs ( Read more... )

I can has beer, 'cause I got a 93 on my Latin test!