Friday, July 20, 2012
Exempla Optima
Exempla Optima
Optima quaeque tibi propone exempla virorum;
Succendet pectus sic tibi laudis amor.
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:
Keep before you (tibi propone) all the best people's exempla (optima quaeque exempla virorum); thus love of glory (sic laudis amor) will light up your heart (succendet pectus tibi).
succendō, succendere: set on fire, kindle
amor -ōris m.: love
exemplum -ī n.: example, sample, copy
laus laudis f.: praise, glory
optimus -a -um: best, excellent; adv. optimē
pectus -oris n.: chest, breast
prōpōnō -pōnere -posuī -positum: put forth, propose, present
quis- quae- quidque: each one, everyone
sīc: in this manner, thus; sīc . . . ut: in the same way as
tū tuī tibi tē: you (sing.)
vir virī m.: man
