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René Seindal
@seindal@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

Help with Latin phrases needed.

Esse suum infirmo medicus memorare tenetur.
Mors praevisa parit saepe medelam animae.

What's this supposed to be in English?

The various online translators produce mostly meaningless babble.

#latin #translation #HelpNeeded

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staringatclouds
@staringatclouds@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@seindal I got

"A physician is bound to remind the sick person of his own existence Death foreseen often brings healing to the soul"

Seems to be a reminder of mortality

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el Celio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
@elCelio@mastodon.uno replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@seindal

The medic must remind the sick person to be themselves.
Expected death often brings the same to the soul.

I think it says that the medic has to remind the sick person to behave, since when a person expects to die they may not think about their wellbeing after death.

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el Celio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
@elCelio@mastodon.uno replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@seindal
context may help of course.

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@frueheneuzeit
@stefan_hessbrueggen@fedihum.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@seindal some context would be helpful.

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René Seindal
@seindal@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@stefan_hessbrueggen

It is a Venetian text, mid 1700s, about the "protomedico", the office physician of the ministry of health.

It has the two lines of Latin in the middle.

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@frueheneuzeit
@stefan_hessbrueggen@fedihum.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@seindal the second one: "Presentiment of one's death often serves as a remedy for the soul." I am not a native English speaker, so take this with a grain of salt. The first is trickier. 1/

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René Seindal
@seindal@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@stefan_hessbrueggen

Thanks a million. Native or not, yours is better than the automatic translations.

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@frueheneuzeit
@stefan_hessbrueggen@fedihum.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@seindal we can also page the Mastodon neolatin group, @neolatin. Some of them may be bored over the holidays. ;)

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