Instrue praeceptis animum, ne discere cessa;
Nam sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago.
Learn what both life and precepts teach, and so
Life's fulness have which th' untaught never know.
(Chase)
Fail not to learn: equip your mind with rules;
Count as but death the life that never schools.
(Duff)
Life's fulness have which th' untaught never know.
(Chase)
Fail not to learn: equip your mind with rules;
Count as but death the life that never schools.
(Duff)
The vocabulary is keyed to the DCC Latin Vocabulary list. There are three words which are not on the DCC list:
cesso -āre - delay, stop, cease
doctrīna f. - education, learning, instruction
instruo - ere, instruxī, instructum - build, set in order, teach
animus -ī m.: spirit, mind
disco -ere didicī: learn
imāgo -inis f.: image, form, figure
mors mortis f.: death
nam: for, indeed, really
nē: lest, that not
praecipio -cipere -cēpī -ceptum: anticipate, advise, warn
quasi: as if
sine: without (+ abl.)
sum, esse, fuī: be, exist
vīta -ae f.: life
