|
|
Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 3,439
Carpal Tunnel
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 3,439 |
Many years ago my dentist had a sign - in Latin - posted in his office.
Summa Ars Est Celare Artem
which he translated as "The Greatest Art Is The Hidden Art"
Very appropriate, I thought, for a dentist.
Now, has my memory recalled the spelling correctly? Any comments? Translation? Anything?
Thank you.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
Looks good. I might quibble about the translation, but that's just me. I'd go with:
The greatest art is to hide the art.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 1,526
veteran
|
|
veteran
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 1,526 |
Could Celare be meant to be "caecum?"
k
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 5,400
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 5,400 |
The NYC morgue (1st Avenue and 25th Street or so, squished between the Veterns Hosp, and the Bellevue Medical center)
has a latin motto in the entry way, greeting people,
i don't remember the latin, but the translation is Enter(welcome,) here, were death delights to teach the living.
a good motto for a grim place.
(One joy of my former employment as a Xerox tech, was, i got to go places i normally never would.. so i have been in the stacks of the 42nd street library, and in the morgue, and lots of other places, that are off the beaten path.)
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858 |
Definition of: ars est celare artem
ars est celare artem: True art is to conceal art.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511 |
Look, all the above translations are pretty good, considering the difficulties involved. Not to hide one's light under one's bushel (or *however it's being translated nowadays), one refers you to http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=108918~ camel in my needle's eye
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 11,613
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 11,613 |
bushel ... being translated 
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 2,788
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 2,788 |
Taceant colloquia. Effugiat risus.
Hic locus est ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae.
(Let conversations cease. Let laughter depart.
This is the place where death delights to help the living.)
-- The Latin motto posted in the autopsy room of Dr. Milton Helpern, the medical examiner of New York City in the 1960's
|
|
|
|
Forums16
Topics13,913
Posts229,322
Members9,182
| |
Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
|
|
|
0 members (),
159
guests, and
0
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|
