“Sono le lingue che fanno i popoli, non i popoli già costituiti che fanno le lingue.”
Ex linguis gentes, non ex gentibus linguae exortae sunt.
Etimologie, o Origini
Isidoro di Siviglia: 9 citazioni4 Mi piace
Isidoro di Siviglia frasi celebri
“Il monte Etna così chiamato per lo zolfo e il fuoco, da cui (si va) anche al Gehenna.”
Mons Aetnae, ex igne et sulphure dictus, unde et Gehenna.
Isidoro di Siviglia: Frasi in inglese
“Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.”
Litterae autem sunt indices rerum, signa verborum, quibus tanta vis est, ut nobis dicta absentium sine voce loquantur. Verba enim per oculos non per aures introducunt.
Isidore of Seville libro Etymologiae
Bk. 1, ch. 3, sect. 1; p. 96.
Etymologiae
“Many creatures go through a natural change and by decay pass into different forms, as bees [are formed] by the decaying flesh of calves, as beetles from horses, locusts from mules, scorpions from crabs.”
Siquidem et per naturam pleraque mutationem recipiunt, et corrupta in diversas species transformantur; sicut de vitulorum carnibus putridis apes, sicut de equis scarabei, de mulis locustae, de cancris scorpiones.
Isidore of Seville libro Etymologiae
Bk. 11, ch. 4, sect. 3; p. 221.
Etymologiae
“And without music there can be no perfect knowledge, for there is nothing without it. For even the universe itself is said to have been put together with a certain harmony of sounds, and the very heavens revolve under the guidance of harmony.”
Itaque sine Musica nulla disciplina potest esse perfecta, nihil enim sine illa. Nam et ipse mundus quadam harmonia sonorum fertur esse conpositus, et coelum ipsud sub harmoniae modulatione revolvi.
Isidore of Seville libro Etymologiae
Bk. 3, ch. 17, sect. 1; p. 137.
Etymologiae
