Septuagesimus: July 22, 2008: Vae
Theme for this week: Interjections. Yay!
vae
Definition: woe! alas! ah! oh dear! bah! curses!
Sententia: "Vae!" Cornelia ait Flaviae dum sedet sub arbore et legit, "Utinam ne Sextus esset molestus, ut in pace legere possim!
"Oh dear!" Cornelia says to Flavia while she sits under the tree and reads, "Would that Sextus was not annoying, so that I may be able to read in peace!"
This word is not the most common one, but nevertheless it is found in Catullus 64 and 8 (en! 8^2 == 64! sorry for that nerdiness...). And as for the sentence, you probably won't get it unless you have done Ecce Romani 1...sorry!
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