et tu, Nik?

[Jon Jarrett]

On Wed, 10 May 2000, John H. McCartney wrote:

> Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 15:08:51 -0700
> From: John H. McCartney <scorch at TE-CATS.COM>
> Reply-To: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU
> Subject: et tu, Nik?
>
> Just ran across this in a list of "less common Latin phrases",
> anyone up for a full translation?   :)
>
>
> scorch
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> >  Magister Mundi sum!    I am the Master of the Universe!

        Dominus mundi sum!
        Aera tempi per me inflat
        Motus omnium mihi attinet
        Omnia opus animi mei est
        In orbe a me formata
        Coruscante impetu caeleste
        Utrum orbis furet an ego est?

        Genitor mundi huius sum
        Omniumque quae esse destinati est
        Adeo ut videre discemus
        Ineptiam in nobis spirantem
        Stultitiamque deprehendam
        Quomodo ex animis nostris eiciri
        Si hoc vivendum appellatis mihi caecus esse oportet...

                Just off the top of me 'ead like :-) Or at least, that's
the best me and my dictionary can come up with. Some of the ambiguities
are quite nasty to translate, and the line I've got for "Has the world
gone mad or is it me?" is trying so hard to allow for both interpretations
that I'm not sure it actually manages either. But you'd get your marks at
GCSE for it... Yours,
                      Jon (magister philosophiae in historia medii aevi)

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