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Question about mysterious words

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Harbourboy, Sep 9, 2004.

  1. Harbourboy

    Harbourboy Take thy form from off my door! Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Does anyone know what the phrase that begins as follows means?

    "Si meliora dies, ut vina, poemata reddit, scire velim,chartis pretium quotus arroget annus"

    I see it often as a place-filler in printers' documents and templates but I don't know whether it means anything (is it Latin?) or why this particular phrase is used so often. A Google search brings up 1000s of pages containing these words.... :confused:
     
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    Yes, it's Latin. I think it's from a poem either by Catullus or Martial, but I'm not positive.
     
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    Something like "If poems, like wine, a day makes better, I would like to know, how much a year adds to the price of charts.". Charts like papyruses, parchment, some such. Price is technically still price, but more like value in our current terms. I probably translated it ages ago in school, but I can't recall.

    [ September 09, 2004, 04:01: Message edited by: chevalier ]
     
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    Eram quod es, eris quod sum

    On a chalk etching I made for art history class a couple years back.
     
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    But why is it used so much in printer's templates? Why are there so many websites using that poem?
     
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    DHB: I was what you are, you will be what I am.
     
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