Monday, May 21, 2012

Ars Una


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Ars Una
E multis unam didicit qui sedulus artem,
   Non timet ille hiemem, non timet ille famem.


Source: Urbano Appendini (1777-1834), De Educatione Disticha. Meter: Elegiac.

The vocabulary is keyed to the DCC Latin Vocabulary list. There is only one word in this poem that is not on the DCC list:

sēdulus, -a, -um: diligent, careful, eager

ars artis f.: skill
disco -ere didicī: learn
ex, ē: out of, from (+ abl.)
famēs -is f.: hunger, famine
hiēms -emis f.: winter
ille, illa, illud: that
multus -a -um: much, many; multō, by far
nōn: not
qui, quae, quod: who, which, what; quis quid: who? what? which?
timeo -ēre -uī: to fear, to dread
ūnus -a -um: one