Dies Irae Dies Illa Solvet Cosmos In Favilla
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The original verse goes like this:
Dies iræ, dies illa
Solvet sæclum in favilla,
Teste David cum Sibylla.
"The day of wrath, that day
will disssolve the world in ashes
David and the Sibyl being witnesses."
Your version has cosmos instead of saeclum ("world") for some reason. The difference in meaning is not very big though.
Dies iræ, dies illa
Solvet sæclum in favilla,
Teste David cum Sibylla.
"The day of wrath, that day
will disssolve the world in ashes
David and the Sibyl being witnesses."
Your version has cosmos instead of saeclum ("world") for some reason. The difference in meaning is not very big though.
I'm afraid the difference in meaning is quite big. Cosmos doesn't occur except in medieval Latin (usually as cosmus), as far as I know, and clearly, like the Greek κόσμος it is borrowed from, the form is second declension nominative, which won't do here.
It is rather incorrect.
The only difference with the first two lines of the original version (which Araneus provided along with a translation) is that they replaced the word saeculum, meaning "world", with the word cosmos. It is possible that they wanted to change "world" to "universe" or "cosmos" and felt the word cosmos was appropriate, but unfortunately they didn't know enough Latin to choose the correct form of the word, and thus the result is ungrammatical.
The only difference with the first two lines of the original version (which Araneus provided along with a translation) is that they replaced the word saeculum, meaning "world", with the word cosmos. It is possible that they wanted to change "world" to "universe" or "cosmos" and felt the word cosmos was appropriate, but unfortunately they didn't know enough Latin to choose the correct form of the word, and thus the result is ungrammatical.
