meaning - What does memento mori actually mean? - Latin …
Memento mori in Latin, regardless of religious beliefs of Christians or pagans, has the force of "remember that you are mortal". The infinitive is flexible like that. The mortality of the triumphant general (all of this is later legends, btw) was a given in Republican Rome (and even under the empire with the sole exceptions of the emperors).
Memento Mori--Revisited - Latin Language Stack Exchange
2019年10月5日 · "dicit memento te mori" = "he (interlocutor) says remember you are dying"; present tense accusative-infinitive construction. Sanguine about death, Seneca, in his interpretation of Roman theology ("Epistle 1") counselled the wise use of time (hence life) as it passes, only to be scooped-up by Death, in His unrelenting approach to the individual:
How do I say "Remember death, but do not forget to live" in Latin?
2020年11月14日 · @tony It works best with two parallel structures, so I'd say it should be either mori&vivere or mors&vita. Perhaps the verbs are somewhat more active. The phrase memento mori doesn't have a perfect English counterpart; both "remember death" and "remember that you are mortal" work. It's indeed blunt in Latin. –
idiom - Parallels for the infinitive in "memento mori"? - Latin ...
2016年12月23日 · Memento mori falls into neither class. It's certainly not (a), but it isn't really (b) either -- the meaning isn't "Don't forget to die!". For the sense of "remember that something will happen", one would have expected an accusative with future infinitive: Memento te moriturum esse. Is this just a quirk of this single phrase?
classical latin - Variable Interpretation of Memento Mori - Latin ...
The common Latin verb for being able to is posse, and it's used with an infinitive. The corresponding simple structure is mori potes, "you can die". I think you can also use an accusativus cum infinitivo (ACI) structure with meminisse. This would lead to memento te posse mori, "remember that you can die". This would be clearer, but the parallel ...
Memento Mori: Indirect Speech - Latin Language Stack Exchange
2019年10月12日 · In Q: Memento Mori--Revisited I attempted to develop the idea of C. M. Weimer that "Memento Mori" could be translated indirectly, giving "Remember that you can die"; improving, hopefully, to "Remember you are dying". This, fitting the required message from the interlocutor to the receiver-of-Triumph, in the chariot.
classical latin - Best conjugation for memento vivere or viveri
2022年10月22日 · That would be Memento vivere, which is the exact same construction as Memento mori, except with “live” instead of “die.” And in any event we can categorically rule out viveri because that word does not even exist in the Latin language.
english to latin translation - Latin Language Stack Exchange
2022年7月26日 · Memento mori, quare ne obliviscaris vivere. Literally: “Remember you must die, therefore do not forget to live.” A repetition of memento would be quite ugly in my opinion. There would be the problem that memento mori should be read as “remember that you must die,” but memento vivere as “remember to live” (see the discussion here ...
vocabulary - Can you spell memento as mement? - Latin …
2024年9月10日 · I just got it in the mail yesterday, and when I looked further, it seems like the design says 'mement' instead of 'momento' as in 'memento mori'. I asked both my friend and a subreddit for whether or not that was an alternative spelling variation and got mixed results. Is it a spelling error, because if so I want to return it.
Gerundial arguments selected by verbs taking Genitive: e.g., …
2019年10月14日 · (i) Joonas’s insightful comment, whose intuition there I tend to share: “memento mori and memento moriendi mean slightly different things, something like 'remember to die' and 'be mindful of the phenomenon of dying'". and (ii) my specific question at the end of a previous post: "(...) e.g., Me, mi Pomponi, valde paenitet vivere. (Cic. Att ...