The Bishop of Poitiers was one of the most able and eloquent opponents of Arianism. Therefore he was exiled by the heretical emperor. He died in 368.
Today John went to the Vienna airport to pick up a student arriving from Ave Maria, and Marlene (the German teacher) and I hitched a ride so that we could go to IKEA. I had never been before, it's amazing! We got another bedding set, clocks (we had no clocks here except an alarm clock, John's watch, and the small one on the bottom of the computer), some kitchen supplies, and our favorite purchase: picture frames. While in Rome we stocked up on posters from a religious goods store. We just finished hanging them up in the living room and bedrooms. The place we have here is livable, but not very homey, and these help quite a bit. My favorite is called Madonna and Child with Open Book by Sandro Botticelli.
John has driven the school vans before, but only to the small town next to ours, never on the Autobahn. It was quite an adventure, as the school vans are old and huge, and it was very foggy. But we prayed to St. Christopher, and made it safely there and back again.
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Can you translate this for me?
Thanks
"Sic te diva potens Cypri,
Sic fratres Helenae, lucida sidera, Ventorumque regat Pater"
Don't have John do your homework for you!
Besty,
Assuming that this is not a homework assignment that you should be doing yourself...
The lines above are from the Roman poet Horace's "To the Vessel of Virgil" (Carmina 1.3). I found a translation of these lines that runs:
"Thus may the goddess that reigns Cyprus,
Thus may Helena's brothers, the bright constellations,
And the father of winds guide you..."
What is this for?
Since I'm on-line, I'll answer for Betsy. She just finished reading that wonderful old novel, Quo Vadis. These lines are quoted near the end of the book. Reading the book was a school assignment; translating the Latin quotes herself was not!
Ah, fun. How did you like Quo Vadis, Betsy?
I liked it, but it was kinda hard to read.
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