Translation
Giodarno Bruno of Nola
On the Shadows of Ideas
With applications for the art of querying, judging, arranging, and thinking
A Declaration
We are in deep shadow, let not you, foolish men, disturb us nor you the
learned, for such a weighty work will seek out learned men.
Dissection
- Jordanus: nom. sg
- Brunus: nom. sg
- Noanus: nom. sg
Giodarno Bruno of Nola
- de: prep
- umbris: pl, abl., "shadows"
- idearum: pl, gen, "of ideas"
On the shadows of ideas
- implicantibus: abl., pl.
- artem: acc, sg, fem.
- quaerendi: gerund, gen., querying
- iudicandi: gerund, gen., judginging
- ordinandi: gerund, gen., arranging
- applicandi: gerund, gen., thinking
"With applications for the art of querying, judging, arranging, and
thinking"
- protestatio: nom, sg: announcement
"A Declaration"
- umbra: abl, sg, fem: shadow
- profunda: adj, deep, sg, fem
- sumus,: we are
"We are in deep shadow"
- ne: particle, intro subj.
- nos: acc, 1st, pl, us
- vexetis, act, subj, pres, 2nd, pl: you disturb
- inepti, nom, pl : foolish men, in apposition
"Let not you, foolish men, disturb us"
"nor you (pl.) (learned) men"
- sed
- doctos: learned men, acc. pl, masc.
- tam: "such a"
- grave: adj, sg, neut.
- quaerit: act, indic, fut, sg., 3rd
- opus: sg, neut, "work"
"for such a weighty work will seek out learned men"