Saturday, November 19, 2005

 

Thought of the Day

Qualis dominus, talis et servus,

Petronius in the Satyricon

Whatever kind of master, that is the kind of slave (resulting).

Comments:
My Latin is weak, but I'm thinking typo: talis est servus, surely?

might we say qualis pater, talis est filius also ("like father like son")?
 
My Latin is only marginally better than yours but I do recall that the proper form of the 'to be' verb (here 'est') is often left out and just understood to be there similar to your example of like father, like son. And the Romans threw in 'et' and 'que' all the time (they both mean 'and') as accent words. So, not a typo. Thanks for noticing, though.
 
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