Rottingdean 1
March 7th 1811.
My Dear Mamma,
I suppose your maxim 2 means Do not retain continual anger, being a mortal. Out of what author did you take it? I can think of nothing in the laminæ of my brain for your theme, but I will try as well as I can. Miror quomodo possis ex tuo capite tantum Latini trahere. Tibi dabo hoc thema, à Latinâ Anglicæ linguæ quam transducas.3
Citò à cælo pluvia cadit; arida terra recipit optatam aquam: Sol lucidam [faciem?] in nubibus celat: in domo se tenant omnes: statim sol per latebras venit: avÚlat humor: Ludunt pueri: circulus per hortos agrosque se sequitur: pila per æther cæruleum volat, dirigitque cursum celerem nunc huc, nunc illuc: hi simulant urbem vincÇre: et per muros horti (pro m œnia urbis) saltant: illi, sperneus tales ludos amant scribere seu libros legere: 4
Le maître à ècrire est venu. Bonjour.<5>
Φιλεω – Φιλησω – 5 [πεφιλησα?] ce que veut dire en Latin6
amo – amabo – amavi 7 τος υιος φιλικως ειμο – 8
W. H. F. Talbot.
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