Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Verbum Hodiernum: O
Today's word is the exclamatory particle O. In English, this is sometimes spelled "O" and sometimes "Oh" - but in Latin it is just spelled O. The Latin exclamation can be used with the vocative in direct address (when the speaker is actually calling out to a real or imagined interlocutor) or it can be used with an accusative (the so-called "accusative of exclamation"). For an example of the accusative of exclamation, consider the phrase - O tempora, O mores! The speaker is not calling out to the times or the customs, but is rather exclaiming, dolefully, about them. You can also find O used with the nominative or the genitive.
Here are some examples of today's word in Latin sayings and proverbs:
O tempora! O mores!
O dii immortales!
O me felicem!
O te beatum!
O feros animos!
O durum iter!
O saevum scelus!
O sortem acerbam!
O amoris vim!
O hominem nequam!
O mentes amentes!
O fallacem hominum spem!
O praeclaram sapientiam!
O praeclarum custodem ovium lupum!
O nomen dulce libertatis!
O semper timidum scelus!
O quantum cogit egestas!
O quanta fuit tua stultitia!
O quam cito transit gloria mundi!
O quam varia sunt hominum studia!
O si sic omnia!
Abi ad formicam, o piger!
O Cupido , quantus es!
O crux, ave, spes unica!
Salvum fac regem, o Domine!
Ave aurora! Salve, O aurora!
O rus, quando ego te aspiciam?
O solitudo, sola beatitudo!
O mors , cur mihi sera venis?
O Iuppiter, ubinam est fides?
O summe parens mundi, Neptune!
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