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Translation Assistance => Other language pairs => Latin→English => Topic started by: spiros on 10 Mar, 2012, 16:15:06

Title: si volet usus, quem penes arbitrium est et ius et norma loquendi –> if usage wills it, in whose hands are choices, rules, and norms of speech
Post by: spiros on 10 Mar, 2012, 16:15:06
usus est ius et norma loquendi → usage is the law and norm of language?
Horace, Ars poetica, 71-72
Title: ... si volet usus, quem penes arbitrium est et ius et norma loquendi → ... if usage wills it, in whose hands are choices, rules, and norms of speech (Horace, Ars Poetica 71f.)
Post by: billberg23 on 27 Apr, 2012, 18:19:56
Horace's point in this passage is that popular language usage (usus) is the sole arbiter of which words come into, or fall out of, common use.

(Sorry to be so slow in discovering this post;  like so many others, it got "drowned" in the "streams" before I could catch it!  (-:)
Title: ... si volet usus, quem penes arbitrium est et ius et norma loquendi → ... if usage wills it, in whose hands are choices, rules, and norms of speech (Horace, Ars Poetica 71f.)
Post by: spiros on 27 Apr, 2012, 18:25:46
Lol, no problem, many thanks!