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Post by Bitmap on Apr 6, 2023 14:48:36 GMT
princeps, perraro, voluptates, thymo, camelis, vestes honorificae, mutari, cadaveribus, consumptis in sententiis suis, fletu ac gemitu, femina detestabilis, cor, manum, sublatura
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Post by Pacifica on Apr 6, 2023 18:26:29 GMT
Hm... Tacitus?
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Post by Bitmap on Apr 6, 2023 23:52:46 GMT
That's an interesting guess, but no. I'm glad it isn't too obvious. |
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Post by Bitmap on Apr 6, 2023 23:55:01 GMT
The last three words are from the same sentence, I think. (That was one of the sentences that stuck with me)
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Post by Pacifica on Apr 7, 2023 0:56:16 GMT
Apuleius?
Going random as I truly have no idea.
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Post by Bitmap on Apr 7, 2023 1:54:43 GMT
Apuleius? Going random as I truly have no idea. That's a really good guess as well, and in one or more ways, it gets closer to the actual text and to the actual author. However, it is not Apuleius. |
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Post by Bitmap on Apr 8, 2023 9:36:12 GMT
Ok, time for stronger hints ... Tbh, I thought at least one word in there would kind of give it away ... or maybe the last few words. As I said, the last 3 words come from the same sentence fragment. Take a last guess as to what it could have been before I give it away. <...> factumque est cor eius focus ardens, cui manum imposuit numquam sublatura. Even stronger hint that totally gives it away: Vae temerario qui ea scire cupit quae oportet eum ignorare et ea suscipere quae potestatem eius excedunt. |
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Post by Pacifica on Apr 8, 2023 15:06:22 GMT
That's from my Vathek translation!
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Post by Bitmap on Apr 8, 2023 15:15:33 GMT
Well done!
Which one of the hints did it for you?
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Post by Pacifica on Apr 8, 2023 15:31:28 GMT
The last one. Maybe I could have recognized the quote before that if I'd paused to think but I didn't.
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Post by Pacifica on Apr 8, 2023 15:36:25 GMT
furor, praesidium, populi, bonorum, munitissimus, sentis, proxima, ubi, consilii, ignorare
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Post by Bitmap on Apr 8, 2023 15:41:17 GMT
That sounds like prose and it sounds like an historian.
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Post by Pacifica on Apr 8, 2023 15:42:25 GMT
It is prose but not a historian.
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Post by Bitmap on Apr 8, 2023 15:45:45 GMT
The furor feels weird ... if it weren't for that word, I would have guessed it's de re publica.
I suppose I'll go with that guess, anyway.
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Post by Pacifica on Apr 8, 2023 15:53:31 GMT
No, but you're getting close.
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