One of my all-time fave quotations -- "while there's life, there's hope" -- has been attributed to 2 ancient Romans: Publius Terentius Afer, a.k.a. Terence (190 - 159 BC), and Cicero (106 - 43 BC).
The problem is, I've found 2 different Latin translations of this same English phrase. I don't know Latin myself, so I wondered if someone can tell me which of the following is the most accurate, and how it translates literally? Thanks! :)
Terence has it as: "Modo liceat vivere, est spes."
Cicero has it as: "Dum anima est, spes est."
2007-09-05
16:09:35
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scary shari
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