Wednesday Latin Quiz

[Gibbon]

I bet you write your test reports in Latin.

It's one of my suggested process improvements!

[xoggoth]

I bet you write your test reports in Latin.

[Gibbon]

He was lucky not to be banished, as Ovid was for writing the same kind of poems. Augustus was keen to encourage marriage and offspring, which rich young people were increasingly trying to avoid as it meant more expense and less to spend on luxuries.

Not sure I agree, Propertius died aprox 15BC, Ovid was banished in aprox 8AD. Propertius was also in the patronage of Augustus through Macaenas and his digs at the marriage reforms were likely to have been tolerated as Propertius had no political ambition or power. It also gives Augustus the chance to show that he was the restorer of a free republic. This does contrast with Cornelius Gallas, probably the father of Roman elegy, who was invited to commit suicide when he got above himself as prefect in Egypt. Also, Ovid was banished for a poem he had wrote seven years earlier, there is suggestions that he knew of some, or was associated with, intrigue involving Julia and Aggripa Postumus who were exiled at the same time.

[OwlHoot]

Answer:

Since now no lover now remains free

he will have no freedom, if he would wish to love.


It's by a Roman poet called Propertius would wrote extensively in
opposition to Augustus Caesars pro marriage laws and here is extolling the virtues of call girls who don't deprive a man of his liberty for their services.

He was lucky not to be banished, as Ovid was for writing the same kind of poems. Augustus was keen to encourage marriage and offspring, which rich young people were increasingly trying to avoid as it meant more expense and less to spend on luxuries.

On one occasion he had a few dozen "knights" (upper class young men) summoned to his palace, and walked up and down the line haranguing them for not settling down and having children. "Murderers of your own posterity!", and indeed by the 4th century almost all the old upper class families from that time had died out.

[Gibbon]

Answer:

Since now no lover now remains free

he will have no freedom, if he would wish to love.


It's by a Roman poet called Propertius would wrote extensively in
opposition to Augustus Caesars pro marriage laws and here is extolling the virtues of call girls who don't deprive a man of his liberty for their services.

[Bunk]

Freedom something something something?

[xoggoth]

That's crappy. I tried to cheat with Bing translate but it doesn't do Latin.

Will have to guess from "Very true for married men! "

Chances of getting some bum sex almost zero?

[Gibbon]

libertas quoniam nulli iam restat amanti:
nullus liber erit, si quis amare volet.

Very true for married men!