Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Pastorum Vota

This little poem is from Giuseppe Gatti's Sales Poetici, Proverbiales, et Iocosi, published in 1703.

Pastorum Vota
Si quaecumque placent cunctis ad vota venirent,
Pastores gererent regia sceptra manu.

The vocabulary is keyed to the DCC Latin Vocabulary list. There are two words in this poem that are not on the DCC list:

pastor (pastōris, m.): shepherd
scēptrum (scēptrī, n.): sceptre

ad: to, up to, towards (+acc.)
cūnctus -a -um: entire all together
gerō gerere gessī gestum: bear, manage; bellum gerere, wage war
manus -ūs m.: hand; band of men
placeō placēre placuī placitum: please
quī- quae- quodcumque: who-, whatever
rēgius -a -um: kingly, royal
sī: if
veniō venīre vēnī ventum: come
votum -ī n.: solemn promise, vow; hope