cupiditate habendi miserrima est

[Rocit]

Avaritia neque habendo fruitur felix & cupiditate habendi miserrima est.

Happy man shouldn't take pleasure in greediness and in love's desire (?) it should be the least (?)

The gerunds aren't clear for me here, could you please help with translation?

 

[Pacifica]

Greediness neither happily enjoys to possess, and is very unhappy because of the cupidity to possess.

 

[Rocit]

Thank you! Now everything makes sense (except gerunds)

 

[Laurentius]

Thank you! Now everything makes sense (except gerunds)

It is only one gerund. "Frui" wants ablative, so they "declined the infinite" (Greediness neither happily derives enjoyment by possessing.)

 

[Pacifica]

Gerund and declined infinitive are one and the same thing as far as I know...

 

[Laurentius]

Gerund and declined infinitive are one and the same thing as far as I know...

Yes I was just trying to explain why they used the gerund, because he didn't understand.

 

[Pacifica]

Ah sorry, I thought you meant that there was only one gerund (habendi), and that habendo wasn't one.

 

[Laurentius]

Ah sorry, I thought you meant that there was only one gerund (habendi), and that habendo wasn't one.

Ah no I am sorry, I didn't notice "habendi" at all. My bad.
Rocit "habendi" tells us what kind of cupidity that is, as the latin word "cupiditas" takes genitive. "A cupidity of possessing".

 

[Rocit]

Ah no I am sorry, I didn't notice "habendi" at all. My bad.
Rocit "habendi" tells us what kind of cupidity that is, as the latin word "cupiditas" takes genitive. "A cupidity of possessing".

Thank you! Didn't see your reply till now...

 

[Laurentius]

Np.