In 1886 Augustus Pitt-Rivers received an honorary degree from Oxford University. I located the oration (traditionally given in Latin) in the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social last week now, would anyone with a better grasp of Latin than me with my A Level like to help me transcribe and translate it?🙏 - ThreadSky

profdanhicks.bsky.social • 7 hours ago

In 1886 Augustus Pitt-Rivers received an honorary degree from Oxford University. I located the oration (traditionally given in Latin) in the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social last week

now, would anyone with a better grasp of Latin than me with my A Level like to help me transcribe and translate it?🙏

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nicholasdenyer.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Have you tried https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/1885-1886_-_Vol_16/21905475?file=38857239

profdanhicks.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Yes the orations weren’t published in the gazette until the early C20

nicholasdenyer.bsky.social•7 hours ago

In Cambridge, such orations are traditionally published in the University Reporter. Have you tried the Oxford University Gazette? https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/1885-1886_-_Vol_16/21905475?file=38857239

travistagr.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I wonder if Mr Marlor is on BlueSky, Dan!

profdanhicks.bsky.social•5 hours ago

ok current version of transcription and sketchy google translate

profdanhicks.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Here's the current draft of the transcription:
Felicites ab hoc viro Musarum cum Martis studiis commixta scitote, cui olim, quum optima missilium fenetat in exercitus nostri usum. (1/4)

profdanhicks.bsky.social•6 hours ago

(2/4) Huic officio praefectus, eligebat, venit in mentem consilium omne telorum genus unidique conquisendi, scilicet ut hoc modo rei militaris ostem primordia progressus oculis submissa pacefierent:

profdanhicks.bsky.social•6 hours ago

(3/4) qua ne peractis additisque aliis foriscorum temporum reliquiis, quae quo suit pacto artes scultae doceant cum evacervarit rerum thesaurum quo nuper lineus Academiam nostram ditavit.

profdanhicks.bsky.social•6 hours ago

(4/4) Hunc ergo fiato quintet susciliamus animo benefactorum necentissimum, hunc volis praesento imperatorem egregrium
Pitt Rivers, Societates Regiae Socium ut admiratus.

cypriotartleeds.bsky.social•6 hours ago

fiato = grato
quintet = oportet
necentissimum = recentissimum
volis = vobis

profdanhicks.bsky.social•1 hour ago

thank you so much Anna!

cypriotartleeds.bsky.social•6 hours ago

(the writing gets quite tricky here!)
suit = fuit
scultae = excultae

cypriotartleeds.bsky.social•6 hours ago

ostem = ortum
pacefierent = patefierent

cypriotartleeds.bsky.social•6 hours ago

quum = suum
fenetat = generat

spoonbill.bsky.social•1 hour ago

"Having done these things, they then performed the sacrifices required by custom, lest they be found lacking in filial piety."
That usually satisfies anyone who asks me for a translation of a Latin inscription, thank you Henry Beard.😉