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I found on a building in Vienna a stone plate (recent) on which there
was the following sentence in Latin:

Sunt lacrimae rerum.

While I get a verbal translation of it, there seems to me an underlying
meaning which I can't grasp.

Can I have some translations/interpretations please.

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[Peter Marksteiner]

rein...@my-deja.com wrote:
: I found on a building in Vienna a stone plate (recent) on which there

: was the following sentence in Latin:

: Sunt lacrimae rerum.

: While I get a verbal translation of it, there seems to me an underlying
: meaning which I can't grasp.

This is a quotation from Virgil's Aeneid (1,463):

En Priamus! Sunt hic etiam sua praemia laudi;
sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.
Solve metus; feret haec aliquam tibi fama salutem.'

"Lacrimae rerum" is often used to express "weltschmerz" and the general
sadness of things. (For example, there is a short story by Edmund Crispin
called "Lacrimae rerum" where this is discussed).

Where in Vienna did you find this?

Peter

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[Gerald Franschitz]

rein...@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> I found on a building in Vienna a stone plate (recent) on which there
> was the following sentence in Latin:
>
> Sunt lacrimae rerum.
>
> While I get a verbal translation of it, there seems to me an underlying
> meaning which I can't grasp.
>

Vergil, aeneis I 462
Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.
( Aeneas says this being remembered on what Troia and his people had
suffered ,but in vain: All things have their tears and as they are
mortal touch the mind)

Hope, this helps ( Englisch is not my first language)
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[rein...@my-deja.com]

In article <7sqg9u$2qbm$1...@www.univie.ac.at>,

Peter Marksteiner <Peter.Ma...@univie.ac.at> wrote:
>
> This is a quotation from Virgil's Aeneid (1,463):
>
> En Priamus! Sunt hic etiam sua praemia laudi;
> sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.
> Solve metus; feret haec aliquam tibi fama salutem.'
>
> "Lacrimae rerum" is often used to express "weltschmerz" and the
general
> sadness of things. (For example, there is a short story by Edmund
Crispin
> called "Lacrimae rerum" where this is discussed).
>
> Where in Vienna did you find this?
>
> Peter

Das heutige Stadtschulamt in Wien war bis 1955 die Russische
Militärkommandatur, oder so ähnlich. Auf der linken Seite des Gebäudes
ist eine kleine Tafel, die diesen Sachverhalt kurz und knapp erwähnt.
Darunter dann kommentarlos das genannte Vergil Zitat.
Ihre Information hilft meinem Verständnis. Unklar bleibt mir noch wie es
in diesem Zusammenhang zu interpretieren ist. Ist es eine Spitze gegen
die russische Besatzungsmacht oder ein Hinweis auf die vorhergehende
Nazi Herrschaft, die dazu geführt hat?

Reino.

[rein...@my-deja.com]

In article <37F0F249...@gmx.net>,

Thank you. How would you translate it German? (Being german myself)