Care amice, tibi est verum: venisti, vidisti, vicisti
sed mihi, inveni, eram, amavi et amo
te specto ut meam animam sentiam
te audio ut vitam canere incipiam
non dico, amor se dicit carmine——
sola res quae est aeterna est natura
viri sunt filii solis
feminae sunt filiae lunae
primo tecta et oppida fecerunt
vixerunt feliciter
deinde verba fecerunt
ut facta scribi possent
libertatem fecerunt
ut omnis vir esset suus dominus
omnisque femina esset sua regina
ardebant autem plura
bella fecerunt, bellis saeva invenerunt
atque pulchras pulchraque ceperunt
deinde fines fecerunt
ut sua tenerent
tamem, civitates et moenia et servitus fuerunt
fuerunt plura misera quam gaudia
e lacrimis deos deorumque aras fecerunt
atque homines spes in eos posuerunt
sidera fuerunt oculi deorum
terram spectaverunt et tacuerunt
sed spes quas homines in deos posuerunt
fuerunt gravissimae
sidera non erant oculi deorum
atque sunt mortes deorum
O, aeternae mortes
quae nunc noctem serenis luminibus spargunt
ambulo quaerens Omnia sidera
tene taedam mihi, care amice
dice mihi numerum eorum
video in flamma mortes fulgentes
atque vitas ardentes
mors est vita quae manet tempori
O, filius viri et umbra maiorum
Song
Dear friend, for you this is true: you came, you saw, and you conquered
but for me: I met, I was, and I loved and love
I look at you so that I may feel my soul
I listen to you so that I may begin to sing of life
I do not say love, love speaks itself by a poem——
the only thing that is eternal is nature
men are the sons of the sun
women are the daughters of the moon
at the beginning, they made houses and towns
and lived happily
then they invented words
so that deeds could be written down
they invented freedom
so that every man is his own master
and every woman is her own queen
but they were wanting more
they made war
in wars they came upon cruelty
they captured beautiful women and things
and then invented boundaries
to keep their possessions
therefore, states, walls, and slavery came to be
miseries were more than joys
out of tears humans invented gods and altars of gods
and put hopes in them
stars were the eyes of gods
they looked at the land and were silent
but the hopes humans put in gods were too heavy
stars were no longer gods’s eyes
they became the deaths of gods
O, eternal deaths
which now sprinkle night with serene lights——
I walk searching all the stars
Hold a torch for me, dear friend
Tell me how many they are
in fire I see deaths shining, and lives burning
death is what life remains for time
O, the son of man, the shadow of ancestors
Posted by thinking on 2012 年 12 月 16 日 at 14:28
请问,这是原创吗?
Posted by 嘉眉 on 2012 年 12 月 17 日 at 01:32
是啊。先写成英文,然后译到拉丁的。
Posted by thinking on 2012 年 12 月 17 日 at 12:21
看到拉丁文,心生敬仰。感觉拉丁文语法比英文简练。
Posted by 嘉眉 on 2012 年 12 月 18 日 at 01:30
拉丁文语法跟古希腊文一样复杂、繁琐,要命。。。但正因为语法复杂,所以可以做到用字少。
Posted by thinking on 2012 年 12 月 18 日 at 07:57
原来如此。。。是不是学哲学的都是语言专家 呵呵
Posted by 嘉眉 on 2012 年 12 月 19 日 at 00:36
哪里,初学,练习一下刚学了的词汇和语法。。。
Posted by thinking on 2012 年 12 月 30 日 at 01:37
预祝新年快乐!
Posted by 嘉眉 on 2012 年 12 月 30 日 at 03:14
也祝你新年快乐。