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Umbricius' farewell speech
21 Hic tunc Umbricius 'quando artibus' inquit 'honestis
- artibus honestis dative of advantage
22 nullus in urbe locus, nulla emolumenta laborum,
23 res hodie minor est here quam fuit atque eadem cras
- res - can mean wealth
- minor - refers to less in quality than quantitly
- here - adv - yesterday
24 deteret exiguis aliquid, proponimus illuc
- detero, deterere - deteret is future
- deteret means "wear away" as in have less impact - the wealth has less purchasing power
- illuc - adverb - "to that place" or pronoun - form of illic
25 ire, fatigatas ubi Daedalus exuit alas,
- ala, alae F wing
- Daedalus is said to have buried Icarus and took off his wings at Cuma
26 dum nova canities, dum prima et recta senectus,
- canities - white hair
- prima - can also mean fresh/new
- senectus, senectutis F / senectus a um
27 dum superest Lachesi quod torqueat et pedibus me
- [a thing] superest Lachesi, [a thing] quod torqueat
- quod torqueat - relative clause of purpose
- can also be generic relative
- Lachesi
28 porto meis nullo dextram subeunte bacillo.
- pedibus meis ablative instrument
- nullo dextram subeunte bacillo ablative absolute
Here at that time, Umbricius says "since, [there is] no place for honest skills in this city, no benefit of labours, today wealth is less than it was yesterday and tomorrow, the same wealth will have less impact by a little, we set forth to go to that place, where Daedalus took off the worn-out wings, while the white hair [is] new, while the old age [is] fresh and new, while something remains for Lachesi to spin and I carry myself with my feet, with no stick being under my right hand.
29 cedamus patria. vivant Artorius istic
- cedamus, vivant, maneant - subjunctive command
30 et Catulus, maneant qui nigrum in candida vertunt,
- nigrum in candida vertunt -
31 quis facile est aedem conducere, flumina, portus,
- quis = quibus (which dative?)
- facile est - would be proelided (proelision)
- conducere - build, manage, design
32 siccandam eluviem, portandum ad busta cadaver,
- siccandam, portandum - gerundives, expressing purpose with conducere
- eluviem - debris after a flood. the Tiber flooded quite frequently and only stopped flooding in the 1900s when they
33 et praebere caput domina venale sub hasta.
- adjectival domina denotes ownership?
- venale - venalis, venale - can be ablative femine (describing hasta) or neuter nominative (describing caput). in this case it's describing caput
- the spear was a sign of public auction
34 quondam hi cornicines et municipalis harenae
- quondam - "describes" cornicines - because adverbs tend to be very close to the word that they're describing
- harena - reference by metonomy to arenas (arena came from harena - h wasn't pronounced much)
35 perpetui comites notaeque per oppida buccae
- perpetuus - repeating, regular, cyclical, e.g. the same band would visit the same towns and the
36 munera nunc edunt et, verso pollice vulgus
- [quondam hi cornicines] et [municipalis harenae perpetui comites] que [notae per oppida buccae] munera nunc edunt
- vulgus, vulgi, 2dc but neuter
37 cum iubet, occidunt populariter; inde reversi
- populariter - adv - in a manner designed to win popular support. popularis = doing something with people in mind, not necessarily doing things liked by the people.
38 conducunt foricas, et cur non omnia? cum sint
39 quales ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum
40 extollit quotiens voluit Fortuna iocari.
Let us leave the fatherland. Let Artorius and Catulus live there, let those who turn black into white remain, they for whom it is easy to bring together a temple, rivers, ports, [to] dry a flood, [to] carry a corpse to graves, and to provide a head under the spear of ownership for sale.
These former trumpeters and regular companions of the provincial arenas and cheeks familiar through the city, now put on shows, and kill for popularity when the public orders [it] with turned thumbs; then from there, they, having turned back, build the public toilets, and why not everything? When they are the sort [whom] Fortune raises up from small to the great peaks of things, as often as Fortune wanted to jest.
would this have been in the colosseum?? mark on map??