I was looking up oportet in Allen & Greenough's and found something quite unexpected (My Latin experience: self-study mainly of Wheelock, really need to review the last few chapters :) ) -- in section 522 it says conditionals with omitted conditions can be in the indicative with verbs signifying 'necessity or propriety'.

This makes some sense to me, but one of the example sentences doesn't: 'quanto melius fuerat (Off. iii. 94) how much better it would have been.' How does fuerat here indicate necessity or propriety?

Dolor recens calamum exsiccat. quid bonum maestitia nisi stimulus sententiarum ? Non omnia autem queror : tandem cottidie bellam in viciniam labor me vocat. laboris ipsius me taedet, sed in loco prandii per vias errare possum ut aedificia mira ac splendidia intuerer.

Ecce :


mane Thamesem e ponte despecto

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Metus novum inexspectatumque in pectore nascitur. Denique ista cum urbe pace conciliavi, immo commoda vitae inibi inveni ut remanere vellem. Metuo tamen ne abire debeam, ne abire cogar. Sicut equidem peregrinus qui scit se mox discessurum, urbi etiam adhaereo.

Falsa ultione falsus dolor tollitur (Seneca, de ira I.ii.5).

By fictitious retribution a fictitious grief is lifted.

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As the other one seemed to go down well, here is another. Probably funnier to old Londoners like myself, tho. Sic transit gloria Monday is very funny. From my friend Brunellus at Speculum Stultorum.

[edit] Note 'donah' is old London slang for 'girlfriend' supposedly from the Italian 'donna'.

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Charmer virumque I sing, Jack plumigeramque Arabellam.
Costermonger erat Jack Jones, asinumque agitabat;
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What is this that roareth thus?
Can it be a Motor Bus?
Yes, the smell and hideous hum
Indicat Motorem Bum!
Implet in the Corn and High
Terror me Motoris Bi:
Bo Motori clamitabo
Ne Motore caedar a Bo--
Dative be or Ablative
So thou only let us live:
Whither shall thy victims flee?
Spare us, spare us, Motor Be!
Thus I sang; and still anigh
Came in hordes Motores Bi,
Et complebat omne forum
Copia Motorum Borum.
How shall wretches live like us
Cincti Bis Motoribus?
Domine, defende nos
Contra hos Motores Bos!

--A.D. Godley

http://lyfaber.blogspot.com/2008/10/motor-bus.html

Nudius tertius refugium in ecclesiae petivi. Antiqua est, etsi saepe solo aequata saepeque denuo aedificata'st. Wren ille, ut credo, quondam restituit. Conflagrationem magnam superavit, nec bombas germanicorum. Nunc turris manet, et nonnullimuri vitibus viriditateque ornati. Inter moenia sunt horti publici, parvi sed haud frequentati, tranquilli praeter sonos urbanos qui caeci circumdant. Inibi paulo urbis oblivisci possum, nisi stragis quae domum eheu scindit, de qua silere me iamiam oportet.

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Hi, all! Back for another round of translation help; you may or may not remember me from fall 2006, looking for some help on a Medieval song.

This time, it's a motet of Giovanni Gabrieli, for the feast of St. Mark, the patron saint of the Venetian cathedral where he worked. It's short; shouldn't take too terribly long, I hope. We're performing this motet in a concert of Venetian music this Saturday in Washington, DC.

Text ( here, for anyone feeling magnanimous. )Thank you!
-Nate