Mater omnium bonarum artium sapientia est.

Flip

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Hi, I am new here. I am struggling to translate a couple of sentences from Latin to English. If someone could take pity and help me out, much appreciated.

Diu in naue fui et propter tempestatem semper mortem exspectabam.

and;

Mater omnium bonarum artium sapientia est.
 
 

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Please read guidelines first.
 

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This is what Matthaeus means, as it looks like homework.
 

Flip

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Ohh, this is most definitely homework. Although, I am not trying to cheat, I have another page of these that I believe I have done correctly. I was unaware of those rules when I posted this, I just preferred to not write up something completely wrong and look like an idiot. And these were the only ones that were troubling me.

I have the following translations, but they look clunky and wrong.

Diu in naue fui et propter tempestatem semper mortem exspectabam.
I was on board for a long time on account of the weather, always expecting death.

Mater omnium bonarum artium sapientia est.
The mother of all good arts is wisdom
 
 

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You only forgot et, and hence exspectabam is a finite verb, not a participle.
 

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Yes, the first one isn't quite right for the reasons Matthaeus says, but it's not wrong enough to make you look like an idiot, really.
 
 

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I never said or intended that, lol.
 

Flip

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Err is this any better?

Diu in naue fui et propter tempestatem semper mortem exspectabam.
I was on board for a long time and on account of the weather always expecting death.
 

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Err is this any better?

Diu in naue fui et propter tempestatem semper mortem exspectabam.
I was on board for a long time and on account of the weather always expecting death.
It's an acceptable translation, but I want to make sure that you understand that exspectabam is literally "I was expecting".
 

Flip

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Ah ok.
Let's try again.

Diu in naue fui et propter tempestatem semper mortem exspectabam.
I was on board for a long time and on account of the weather I was always expecting death.

better or worse?
 

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It's good. Not that the other wouldn't be ok as a bit freer/less literal translation if you had deliberately taken the liberty to translate it as such, but you have first to understand the construction of the Latin and be aware that exspectabam isn't a participle.
 

Flip

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OK, it's still early days for me - I've only been at this for a couple of weeks.
This really helps a lot. Thanks
 

Flip

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Ohh could I ask one more thing,
Declining a noun with an adjective: auxilium utile
The noun is axulium and it is neutral. So I did the following declensions.


Singular: Plural:
Nominative - auxilium utile auxilia utilia
Genitive - auxilii utilis auxiliorum utilium
Dative - auxilio utili auxiliis utilibus
Accusative - auxilium utile auxilia utilia
Ablative - auxilio utili auxiliis utilibus
Vocative - auxilium utile auxilia utilia

is this correct?
 
 

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yep
 

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"I was on board for a long time and on account of the weather [I was] always expecting death."
This means the same regardless of whether you repeat 'I was' or not.
 
 

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np
 
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