Overlord Nadrian on Tue, February 8th, 2011 at 21:29[»]
There is no room for a remedy, where faults were made, character comes into existence.
No idea what the 'deest remedii locus' thing is doing there, makes no sense. Or I just suck at translating Latin to English. Probably a bit of both, but my translation is definitely better than the one on that site.
Deest is just a tense form of "lack" or "absence", in english you'd just say that it's "not there" or something. Latin was a real "freeride" as far as poetry is concerned, so rules of grammar were sometimes bent. Remedii comes from Remedium, meaning "remedy" or "cure" but in this case "proper/correct means" or "non-errors". Locus means "place".
"When there is no place for proper means (there), where errors were made, they become customs."
This post has been edited by Foxi4, Wed, February 9th, 2011 at 01:08
Wed, February 9th, 2011 at 00:56
top
multi
options
