SulpicVitaMatiniNotes
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Praefatio
- Severus Desiderio fratri carissimo: understand salutem dicit, "sends greetings to."
- ego . . . decreveram: 'I had decided to'
- schedā suā premere: 'to suppress in it's own paper,' i.e. not publish.
- decreveram: 'I had decided' (> decerno, decernere, decrevi, decretum)
- quod fore arbitror: '[a thing] which I think will happen.' fore = futurum esse.
- qui materiem disertis merito scriptoribus reservandam impudens occupassem: 'because I had impudently usurped material that should rightly be reserved for learned writers.' The relative clause is causal (Woodcock sec. 156).
- ocuppassem: = occupavissem (plupf. subj., > occupo [1])
- patenti: '(you) asking for (it)'
- quid enim esset, quod non . . . impenderem?: literally, 'what would there be that I would not spend for', i.e., 'I would expend any effort for'.
- eā . . . fiduciā . . . quā: 'with the confidence that'.
- prodendum (sc. esse): 'that it must be revealed' (OLD s.v. prodo 8).
- eum legi: 'that it is being read'.
- bonā veniā . . . postulabis: 'you must kindly ask', a colloquial use of the future tense (see Gildersleeve and Lodge sec. 243). For bonā veniā = 'with your indulgence', see OLD s.v. venia 3.
- aequo animo ferant: 'bear it calmly'.
- vitiosus sermo: 'faulty style'.
- perculerit: 'strikes', fut. pf. in a future more vivid condition (> percello, percellere, perculi, perculsum).
- meminerint: 'let them recall', pf. subj., jussive.
- salus -utis, f.: salvation (eccl.).
- salutem . . . praedicatam esse: 'that salvation was proclaimed' (> praedico [1]).
- saeculum -i, n., the world (eccl.).
- utique (Adv.), doubtless.
- suppresso . . . nomine: 'anonymously'.
- videtur: 'it seems best'.
- quod ut fieri valeat: 'in order to do this'.
