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Originally posted by EnochWasRight
In the first century, Cesar asked Jesus, "What is truth?"
Here is where it gets interesting. Seclorum is not listed in my lexicon. The only reference I have is this.
Pluribus - Is it interesting to know that this word does not appear in my lexicon.
The forms saecla, saeclorum etc. were normal alternatives to the more common saecula etc. throughout the history of Latin poetry and prose. The form saeculorum is impossible in hexameter verse: the ae and o are long, the u short by position. For the medieval exchange between ae, æ and e, see Æ; the word medieval (mediæval) itself is another example. Medieval Christians read Virgil's poem as a prophecy of the coming of Christ. The Augustan Age, although pre-Christian, was viewed as a golden age preparing the world for the coming of Christ.
The great poets of this age were viewed as a source of revelation and light upon the Christian mysteries to come. [2] The word seclorum does not mean "secular", as one might assume, but is the genitive (possessive) plural form of the word saeculum, meaning (in this context) generation, century, or age. Saeculum did come to mean "age, world" in late, Christian Latin, and "secular" is derived from it, through secularis. However, the adjective "secularis," meaning "worldly," is not equivalent to the genitive plural "seclorum," meaning "of the ages."[3] Thus the motto Novus ordo seclorum can be translated as "A new order of the ages." It was proposed by Charles Thomson, the Latin expert who was involved in the design of the Great Seal of the United States, to signify "the beginning of the new American Era" as of the date of the Declaration of Independence.
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
In the first century, Cesar asked Jesus, "What is truth?"
Really? When did 'Cesar' (or Caesar for that matter) hold a convesation with Jesus?
Here is where it gets interesting. Seclorum is not listed in my lexicon. The only reference I have is this.
That is because your book is based on Classical Latin. Medieval Latin saw the shift from the Classical 'æ' to 'e'. The word you should be looking up is 'sæclorum'. The phrase in question is taken from Virgil's Fourth Eclouge and reads 'Magnus ab integro sæclorum nascitur ordo', 'The great order of the ages is born afresh'.
Pluribus - Is it interesting to know that this word does not appear in my lexicon.
The almost exact phrase was used again by Virgil (who may not be the orignal author) in his poem Moretum. It reads 'color est e pluribus unus' and refers to blending of colors into one.
edit on 3-3-2013 by AugustusMasonicus because: networkdude has no beer.....in any language
Originally posted by sonnny1
reply to post by AugustusMasonicus
Agree.
The forms saecla, saeclorum etc. were normal alternatives to the more common saecula etc. throughout the history of Latin poetry and prose. The form saeculorum is impossible in hexameter verse: the ae and o are long, the u short by position. For the medieval exchange between ae, æ and e, see Æ; the word medieval (mediæval) itself is another example. Medieval Christians read Virgil's poem as a prophecy of the coming of Christ. The Augustan Age, although pre-Christian, was viewed as a golden age preparing the world for the coming of Christ.
The great poets of this age were viewed as a source of revelation and light upon the Christian mysteries to come. [2] The word seclorum does not mean "secular", as one might assume, but is the genitive (possessive) plural form of the word saeculum, meaning (in this context) generation, century, or age. Saeculum did come to mean "age, world" in late, Christian Latin, and "secular" is derived from it, through secularis. However, the adjective "secularis," meaning "worldly," is not equivalent to the genitive plural "seclorum," meaning "of the ages."[3] Thus the motto Novus ordo seclorum can be translated as "A new order of the ages." It was proposed by Charles Thomson, the Latin expert who was involved in the design of the Great Seal of the United States, to signify "the beginning of the new American Era" as of the date of the Declaration of Independence.
Novus ordo seclorum
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
In This Thread, you misspelled organizations and ambitions.
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
In This Thread, you misspelled organizations and ambitions.
And? What does that have to do with the fact that your entire Original Post is flawed based on your incorrect assumptions of Latin?
Or that you invented a dialouge between Caesar (which one?) and Jesus?
edit on 3-3-2013 by AugustusMasonicus because: networkdude has no beer but at least he knows not to make up stories about historical persons
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
Interesting. How does this fit with the Mason's "Great Work?" From the looks of the temple they build, the main framework seems to be modeled toward feeding the few by the labors of the many. Is this what Christ had in mind when he told Peter to feed the sheep?
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
Actually, it was Pilate.
What about that "Great Work?" How do you define the "Great Work?"
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
Here is where it gets interesting. Seclorum is not listed in my lexicon.
saeculum
a race, generation, age, the people of any time
seclorum noun pl neut gen
Pluribus - Is it interesting to know that this word does not appear in my lexicon.
ibus or ubus is added to many Latin words. For instance, mulier is woman. Mulieribus is women.
Originally posted by FurvusRexCaeli
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
Here is where it gets interesting. Seclorum is not listed in my lexicon.
Either you don't have a very good lexicon, you got fooled by the orthography (happens even to those with encyclopaedic knowledge from time to time), or you couldn't figure out the nominative singular of a plural genitive.
If you want Latin definitions, William Whittaker's Words is online and free, as is Lewis & Short, through Tufts University's Perseus Project. Perseus will even look up declined forms of words for you:
saeculum
a race, generation, age, the people of any time
seclorum noun pl neut gen
Pluribus - Is it interesting to know that this word does not appear in my lexicon.
Again, bad lexicon, or you didn't figure out the nominative singular from the ablative plural--which could happen if you weren't expecting the s->r shift from plus to plures. Look this one up in Perseus.
ibus or ubus is added to many Latin words. For instance, mulier is woman. Mulieribus is women.
Mulier is more of a wife than just any woman, who would be a femina. Mulieribus is to/for or from/by/with the wives. If you just want to say women, without indicating the word's relationship to anything else in the sentence, that would be feminae or mulieres.
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
In either case, each of the two lexicons I possess do not have the two words listed. Either way I look it up, and I did, they do not appear. This is why I also looked online as well. The morphology I show is accurate to both the meaning we can see on the internet and the root meaning that originates the terms.
The defensiveness of the posters here is not due to my error, but the subject I reveal. This is obvious from past threads and the posters who connect themselves to anything having to do with revealing the hidden agenda of those who are building a "New World Order."
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
Actually, it was Pilate.
How do you confuse a Roman Prefect with the Emperor?
That was rhetorical, the answer obvious. Sloppiness.
What about that "Great Work?" How do you define the "Great Work?"
There is nothing in Masonic ritual about a 'Great Work' and I find this to be highly irrelevant to your erroneous Original Post.
edit on 3-3-2013 by AugustusMasonicus because: networkdude has no beer and it would be a great work for him to get some
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
What do you make of these two links?
The Great Work of Speculative Freemasonry
The Great work, Quotes from 1920-1924
The 'morphology' is irrelevant as the defintions have been and are what has been explained to you.
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
What do you make of these two links?
Nothing.
The Great Work of Speculative Freemasonry
The first is the opinion of one Mark "Stryder" Stilwell.
The Great work, Quotes from 1920-1924
The second is from a website for the paranoid and delusional.
I stand by my earlier statement; there is no mention of a 'Great Work' in Masonic ritual. Your reference is irrelevant.
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
Actually, it was Pilate.
How do you confuse a Roman Prefect with the Emperor?
That was rhetorical, the answer obvious. Sloppiness.
What about that "Great Work?" How do you define the "Great Work?"
There is nothing in Masonic ritual about a 'Great Work' and I find this to be highly irrelevant to your erroneous Original Post.
edit on 3-3-2013 by AugustusMasonicus because: networkdude has no beer and it would be a great work for him to get some
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
Not hardly. Words have a broader meaning when examining their within the context of their component parts.
You call my examination in error.
Your own posts have only added to what I have stated.
Our history (Not to mention the conspiracies obvious on this website) confirm the context and platform I show.
Attacking me has little to do with speaking to the subject presented. Attack of the object is a sure sign you have nothing to say, or you would have said it.
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
"The Grand Lodge of Virginia voted in 1800 against the establishment of a National Grand Lodge. However, it did recommend that a convention be held every three years in Washington ". . . for recommending a uniform mode of carrying on the great work of the Craft, in the different degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master Mason."