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Si tu pouvais savoir...

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Oct 15, 1995, 3:00:00 AM10/15/95
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I know that "Amor vincit omnia" means "Love conquers all." How do you say
"Love does not conquer all"? Thanks.

Robert Stonehouse

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Oct 16, 1995, 3:00:00 AM10/16/95
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sart...@cs.bu.edu (Keith Antul) wrote:

>Si tu pouvais savoir... (as...@er6.rutgers.edu) wrote:
>: I know that "Amor vincit omnia" means "Love conquers all." How do you say


>: "Love does not conquer all"? Thanks.

>Amor non vincit omnia?
Might it be better word order to say "Non omnia vincit amor", "It is
not everyithing that love conquers", so that it is explicit that "non"
applies to "omnia", that is, there are things that it does not
conquer?

"Amor vincit omnia" is in Chaucer - it fits his line - but Ovid I
think has

"Omnia vincit amor: et nos cedamus amori"
"Love conquers all: let us too yield to love".


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