Idioms

[Matthaeus]

Nice. As if life didn't belong to us, but to nature. We only "borrow it" from nature. The message must be that life is a privilege.

 

[Pacifica]

Rebus humanis eximi: to be taken away from human things = same, to die.

Same, on tombstones.

 

[Laurentius]

You read a lot of tombstones, don't you?

 

[Pacifica]

Lol. These days yes, but not always.

Esse desinere: to cease to be = same.

Not on a tombstone, but in a letter.... talking about tombstones.

When you think about it, Latin had really very various expressions for "to die".

 

[Laurentius]

It's a dead language after all.

 

[Matthaeus]

Or so they say.

 

[Aurifex]

You read a lot of tombstones, don't you?

I think it's a very valuable exercise. They're fundamental to understanding the bigger picture.

 

[Laurentius]

Or so they say.

Lingua vemortua.

I think it's a very valuable exercise. They're fundamental to understanding the bigger picture.

Yes I read her link about roman tombstones too, very interesting! And it also helps us understand who they conceived life.

 

[Pacifica]

And it also helps us understand who they conceived life.

You mean "how".

Pompeian graffiti are fun too (well I should even say more fun than tombstones...).

 

[Matthaeus]

PP have you ever thought of composing your own epitath? Ben Franklin did it, I think, as many others. Not that I wish for your quick death, di averruncent hoc! Just an idea...

 

[Pacifica]

PP have you ever thought of composing your own epitath? Ben Franklin did it, I think, as many others. Not that I wish for your quick death, di averruncent hoc! Just an idea...

No joke, I already thought about it. But finally I thought no. I don't care how my tomb will be, I'll be dead.

 

[Matthaeus]

Or an urn? smaller, lol

 

[Laurentius]

No joke, I already thought about it. But finally I thought no. I don't care how my tomb will be, I'll be dead.

There is some verse by Maecenas that sounds like that, if I remember well, "nil sepulcrum curo, sepelit natura relictos". Btw yes I meant "how", and thanks for the link.
Edit: It was "nec tumulum curo..."

 

[Pacifica]

Yes, even throw me into a river, for what I'll care then...

 

[Matthaeus]

So your corpse can poison our drinking water!?

 

[Pacifica]

So your corpse can poison our drinking water!?

Après moi le déluge...

 

[Matthaeus]

Hah! And all this time I thought it was attributed to the Sun King!

 

[Pacifica]

Hah! And all this time I thought it was attributed to the Sun King!

Until now I had no clue what the origin of the expression was.

 

[Matthaeus]

Well, we both learnt something new.

 

[Pacifica]

Pati sine aliqua re: to tolerate without something = to make do without something.