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Liber Secundus refers to “second child” ....


5 posted on 04/12/2009 12:25:56 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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Liberi ("the free ones") can mean "children." Liber Secundus could *possibly* mean "The Second Free One" but a more likely possibility is "The Second Book."

Ego venit , ego posteri , ego eram zotted. Looks like very bad Latin to me. Venit means "he/she/it has come." It can also be present tense. "I have come" would be Veni. The Ego is not necessary.

posteri -- "the ones after." It could be "descendants."

ego eram zotted. -- apparently what was meant is "I was zotted."

De Principiis Cogitandi. Liber Secundus. On the principals of thinking. Book Two. (Many book titles begin with De. There was Caesar's De Bello Gallico; Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, and many others. Actually Caesar's title was probably longer but that's the short title.

Visa tamen tardi demum inclementia morbi Hmmm...looks like "nevertheless the harshness of slow illness has been seen, finally." That doesn't seem to quite fit with the first part though.

Luna habitabilis. Visa tibi ante oculos, et nota major imago. "The inhabitable moon. Things seen unto you before your eyes, and a larger image has been noted."

104 posted on 04/12/2009 9:10:11 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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