english to latin
2006-10-07 23:30:54 · 5 answers · asked by twisted 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
I must disagree with the attempts to translate "in absence of" literally. A more Roman idiom is to say "with it being absent".
Therefore the literal phrasing of my suggestion is "With light and love being absent, darkness alone is present"
Absentibus luce amoreque, solae adsunt tenebrae.
By putting absentibus at the start and tenebrae at the end, this emphasises "absent" and "darkness".
2006-10-08 02:44:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
In lucis et amoris absentia, solum tenebrae sunt.
zlevad is a genius - he gets all those little niceties of grammatical nuance that make or break a translation!
2006-10-08 07:42:01 · answer #2 · answered by Jeannie 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In Lucis amorisque absentia, nox est
2006-10-08 07:56:12 · answer #3 · answered by Sweet Dragon 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In absentis of lux lucis quod diligo , illic est tantum obscurum
2006-10-08 06:43:56 · answer #4 · answered by rowena 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Do it yourself
www.nd.edu/~archives/latin.htm
2006-10-08 06:40:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋