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- Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!turrell
- From: turrell@violet.berkeley.edu (David Turrell)
- Newsgroups: sci.classics
- Subject: Re: Quid est "tio"?
- Date: 30 Jul 1992 08:56:01 GMT
- Organization: Cobol Pacific University
- Lines: 32
- Message-ID: <158ar1INN4s7@agate.berkeley.edu>
- References: <13resbINNqi9@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Jul29.141145.22497@shearson.com>
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- Keywords: Latin
-
- In article <1992Jul29.141145.22497@shearson.com>
- brekshyn@shearson.com (Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj von DeGrabianka)
- writes:
-
- >Sigh, "Oh the Times", indeed! C'mon guys, what happened to your Latin!
- >It's "Dominus Illuminatio Mea" - "The Lord, my enlightenment" (or, in
- >the vulgate, "light"), since illuminatio is from (but not derived
- >from, as a past particple) illumino - "light up", "enlighten",
- >"embellish".
-
- Lighten up.
-
- We'd long since gone from the sublime on this one. It should go
- without saying that everyone in this newsgroup knew how the motto
- should read, or was able to figure it out for themselves. The original
- article did in fact ask if the misprint itself might have any
- meaning, not the motto as it should read; and we were having a little
- fun with it.
-
- My guess as to what inspired the motto, as I once stated, is that it's
- something by my namesake in the Psalter (xxvii). The meaning of such
- biblical snippets is made clearer when they are seen in context.
-
- The Lord is my light and my salvation;
- Whom shall I fear?
- The Lord is the strength of my life;
- Of whom shall I be afraid?
-
- Does someone want to give the Latin version, or make another
- suggestion as to the motto's origin?
-
- -David
-