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Vanitas vanitatum, est omnia vanitas....

Bill

Lucius1958 wrote:Vanitas vanitatum, est omnia vanitas....

Bill

And for those who don't read Latin?

Can anyone guess what they are going to use crap-a-phones for---to go along with the vanities?

Lucius1958 wrote:Vanitas vanitatum, est omnia vanitas....

Bill

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity ....

Shouldn't that be "Vanitas vanitatorum,..."? Or is my Latin rusty? (vanitas, vanitatis, etc.)

Henry wrote:Shouldn't that be "Vanitas vanitatorum,..."? Or is my Latin rusty? (vanitas, vanitatis, etc.)

"Vanitatum" is the correct genitive plural for that declension.

(sigh) I used to be able to toss off a running translation of a page of Vergil, back in the day...)

Bill

emerson wrote:Can anyone guess what they are going to use crap-a-phones for---to go along with the vanities?

They would make interesting urinals...

Lucius1958 wrote:

Henry wrote:Shouldn't that be "Vanitas vanitatorum,..."? Or is my Latin rusty? (vanitas, vanitatis, etc.)

"Vanitatum" is the correct genitive plural for that declension.

(sigh) I used to be able to toss off a running translation of a page of Vergil, back in the day...)

Bill

You're a better man than I, Bill. Miss Cooper, my 8th-9th grade Latin teacher, would be ashamed of me!

(Miss Cooper's first name was Ursula, and she was truly a "she-bear" when it came to precision! I am forever in her debt for my life-long interest in words and languages.)

Sorry to steer the thread off-topic, but my language skills pale before my brother Otto's (classics doctorate from Yale, also speaks fluent Iban)...

Bill