Showing posts with label henry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label henry. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Ad Avarum

You can find the poems of Henry of Huntingdon in The Anglo-Latin Satirical Poets and Epigrammatists of the Twelfth Century (1872, ed. Thomas Wright), which is available online.

Ad Avarum
Rem peragit iuste, sed solam, quisquis avare
Vixit quando perit; nunc age, Tulle, peri.

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

peragō, peragere: finish, accomplish
Tullus (Tullī, m.): Tullus

agō agere ēgī āctum: drive, do, act
iūstus -a -um: right, just, fair
nunc: now
pereō -īre -iī -itum: perish, be lost
quandō: when?; since; si quando: if ever
quisquis quidquid: whoever, whichever
rēs reī f.: thing (rēs pūblica, commonwealth; rēs familiāris, family property, estate; rēs mīlitāris, art of war; rēs novae, revolution)
sed: but
sōlus -a -um: only, alone; sōlum (adv.), only, merely
vīvō vīvere vīxī victum: live