Saturday, June 9, 2012

Uni Pareo

This poem comes from the Emblemata amatoria (1611) of Pieter Cornelisz Hooft (1581-1626). You can find the book online at the Emblem Project Utrecht.

Uni Pareo
Una uni serulae clavis respondet; et uni
Arcano similis convenit una mihi.


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

arcānus -a -um - closed, hidden, secret
clāvis, clāvis f. - key, lever
serula, f. - a little bar, bolt

conveniō -venīre -vēnī -ventum: assemble, meet; agree
ego meī mihi mē: I, me
et: and
pāreō parēre pāruī: obey
respondeō -spondēre -spondī -spōnsum: answer
similis -e: like, similar
ūnus -a -um: one