Memorandum
Non memorare decet, si quid bene feceris ulli;
Si male passus eris, nec meminisse decet.
Source: François Oudin (1673-1752), Silva Distichorum, 160. 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:
It is not right to mention (non memorare decet), if you do something good (si quid bene feceris) for somebody (ulli); nor it is right to remember (nec meminisse decet) if you have suffered (i passus eris) something bad (male).
memoro, memorāre: bring to mind, mention
aliquis -quae -quod: some, any; si quis, si quid: anyone who, anything that
bene: well
decet decēre decuīt: it becomes, it behooves (+ acc. of person, or infinitive)
faciō facere fēcī factum: do, make
malus -a -um: bad, evil; male: (adv.) badly
meminī meminisse: remember, recollect
neque nec: and not, nor; neque . . . neque, neither . . . nor
nōn: not
patior patī passus sum: permit, endure
sī: if
ūllus -a -um: any, anyone
