Finitio ultima est Caelum. Cursus est navis sidere vi "Inceptus", quinque anno legatio sua, terras novas et peregrinas explorare, inauditam vitam ignotas civilisationesque quaerere, ubi nemo iam adfuit audacter ire.
The final frontier is Heaven. The star-powered-ship "Enterprise", in the fifth year of its mission, set off to explore new and foreign earths, to search unheard lifes and unknown civilisations, to boldly go where nobody has ever visited.
The beginning of the second phrase gave me quite a headache. I got it only at the last subordinate clause. I corrected the misstakes.
@John-117: Judging from your feeble online-translator-attempts you didn't even half a lesson of Latin.
Ok, I was this close to changing my signature to the latin version of Star Trek.
I honestly would love to see that included just for the priceless look on people's face when they would see it.
I've got that book I was talking about as a birthday present today.
950 pages of historical quotes. I'm sure there'll be something useful in there. The only drawback is that the original quote in the original language isn't there.
you should cite the source, not just shoot a random quote.
luckily for you, I know where this came from: Terence, in Phormio, 2nd century BC (it was quoted by Virgil and I think Ovid, but I don't rememberthe latter for sure).
I was once alive, but then a girl came and took out my ticker.
I've got some quotes on history in general, I don't know if they are useful but I thought I'd share.
I'll be looking for quotes about the EB period after this.
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« My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever. »
Θουκυδίδης – Thucydides (ca.431 - ca.404 BC) The History of the Peloponnesian War I.22
« Equidem beatos puto, quibus deorum munere datum est aut facere scribenda aut scribere legenda, beatissimos vero quibus utrumque. »
The fortunate man, in my opinion, is he to whom the gods have granted the power either to do something which is worth recording or to write what is worth reading; and most fortunate of all is the man who can do both.
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus – Pliny the Younger (ca.61-113) Epistulae VI.16
- in a letter to Tacitus.
« Sine ira et studio. »
Without anger or bias.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus[1] (ca.56-120), Annales 1.1
- Tacitus’ personal standard for the writing of history.
[1] "Publius" seems to be the consensus. One of his manuscripts is signed with Publius.
On the other hand, Sidonius Apollinaris (431-489) called him "Gaius", but as you can see, they didn't know each other intimately.
« Dwell on the past and you’ll lose an eye. Forget the past and you’ll lose both. »
- Old Russian proverb.
« Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. »
Oscar Wilde The Critic as Artist (1891) Part I
« The very ink in which all history is written is mere fluid prejudice. »
Mark Twain Following the Equator (1897)
« History: gossip well told. »
Elbert Hubbard The Roycroft Dictionary (1914)
« Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? »
Carl Gustav Jung Woman in Europe (1927)
« The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. »
L.P. Hartley The Go-Between (1953) Prologue
I realized that 1 year of Greek 8 years ago isn't enough the find the Greek version of the Theucidides-quote. I don't where the line starts or stops in his The History of the Peloponnesian War...
Re: The Europa Barbarorum Quotes Project
Originally Posted by machinor
Let's see:
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