Sunday 6 January 2019

Endure

“Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis” (Then endure for a while, and live for a happier day!).
 -copied from here.

Poul Anderson quotes this line in translation at the beginning of After Doomsday, Chapter Seven.

I gather that it is from Virgil's Aeneid although I cannot find the reference

Addendum, January 1, 2019: Literally, the Latin means just: "Last and save yourselves for second things."

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

A classicist might be able to tell you where that Latin bit you quoted in translation came from. Do you know of any?

Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,
Oh, yes. I should be able to track it down with a little effort.
Paul.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I had in the back of my mind Sarah Ruden, a classicist and translator. I first heard of her when I read a review of her book PAUL AMONG THE PEOPLE, an examination of the letters of St. Paul from the POV of a person living in the Apostle's lifetime. The results were so startling that Ruden completely reversed her formerly unsympathetic view of Saul of Tarsus.

Sean