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Dec 5, 2008 06:12
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English term
eyes
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English to Latin
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Having trouble translating "eyes". This is for an epitaph.
"I found salvation in your eyes"
"I found salvation in your eyes"
Proposed translations
(Latin)
5 | oculi | Joseph Brazauskas |
Proposed translations
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oculi
'Oculi' is the usual term for eyes. 'Ocelli' is a diminutive form (approximately = '(dear) little eyes'), while the poets employ such conceits as 'luces' and 'lumina', both meaning properly 'lights'.
'I found salvation in your eyes' = '(In) oculis tuis salutem inveni'. Here the preposition 'in' is not obligatory.
I should note that in epitaphs and other inscriptions, the ancients employed only capital letters, what we call lower case letters not having been devised until Carolingian times. Similarly, they used punctuation only sparingly and inconsistently, and ordinarily, though not always, there were no spaces left between the words. Thus, the above epitaph would have been inscribed:
IN OCVLIS TVIS SALVTEM INVENI
or
INOCVLISTVISSALVTEMINVENI.
Please note also that in inscriptions of all periods, capital V and U are interchangeable, U being merely a variant of V. It came into use about the late 1st cent. CE. Capital J, however, is never so employed for capital I. Hence, the epitaph could also be written
IN OCULIS TUIS SALUTEM INUENI.
'I found salvation in your eyes' = '(In) oculis tuis salutem inveni'. Here the preposition 'in' is not obligatory.
I should note that in epitaphs and other inscriptions, the ancients employed only capital letters, what we call lower case letters not having been devised until Carolingian times. Similarly, they used punctuation only sparingly and inconsistently, and ordinarily, though not always, there were no spaces left between the words. Thus, the above epitaph would have been inscribed:
IN OCVLIS TVIS SALVTEM INVENI
or
INOCVLISTVISSALVTEMINVENI.
Please note also that in inscriptions of all periods, capital V and U are interchangeable, U being merely a variant of V. It came into use about the late 1st cent. CE. Capital J, however, is never so employed for capital I. Hence, the epitaph could also be written
IN OCULIS TUIS SALUTEM INUENI.
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