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Updated: June 6, 2025
Nor had he now sat long upon his stone, heedless of the world's preparations for winter, before he began repeating to himself the poet's Aequam memento rebus in arduis, which he had been trying much, but with small success, to reproduce in similar English cadences, moved thereto in part by the success of Tennyson in his O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies a thing as yet alone in the language, so far as I know.
"Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem." The girls smiled at this, confident of their powers. The students at Hurst prided themselves on their Latin, and could have stood a much severer test without wavering. The seniors did not trouble to write their answers, but waited complacently until the time came when they should have an opportunity of airing their proficiency.
It never came, however, for Tom chose to disappoint expectations by reading aloud her own translation from her position in front of the fire. "Memento remember; mentem and mind; servare to hold up; aequam your mare; in rebus arduis going up hill. That translation, young ladies, was given by an undergraduate in the University of Oxford.
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