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I need a bit of Latin translation help. I'll give you what I have so far: Code:
Eram nive candidior, I was whiter than the snow,
quavis ave formosior.
Modo sum corvo nigrior. Now I am blacker than a crow.
Can anyone give me a decent translation of the middle line? It doesn't have to be a poetic translation. In fact I would prefer a literal translation. It's that pesky word quavis that's bugging me.
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More beautiful than any bird.
Quavis is the ablative singular of the feminine form of quivis, quaevis, quidvis, 'anyone, any you please, anybody at all'.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Ha! I thought it was something like that. Gratias tibi, Navuncule.
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The word that's giving you trouble is missing a letter. Quamvis (with the "m") means something like "ever so much" with a comparative. Ave quamvis formosior means "ever so much more beautiful (in form) than a bird." Where does the quote come from?
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I yield to the superior grammatical skills and vocabulary of "Old Hand." His translation makes more sense than my "typo" explanation.
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Welcome aBoard, George! The line is from the countertenor solo in Carmina Burana.
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Quote:
from the countertenor solo in Carmina Burana.
Well, actually it's from one of the two verses that Orff left out. The other one is:
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Mallem in aquis vivere I would rather be living
semper nudo sub aere, always under the blue sky,
quam in hoc mergi pipere rather than swimming in this pepper sauce.
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them's be nice verses, too. wonder why he left them out?
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> left out more than 2 verses
> from the countertenor solo
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