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Translation - Dutch-Latin - Als je het verleden loslaat heb je beide handen...

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Als je het verleden loslaat heb je beide handen...
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Submitted by kruimel84
Source language: Dutch

Als je het verleden loslaat heb je beide handen vrij om de toekomst te grijpen.
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Title
Si praeterito tempori decedere permittes...
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Latin

Translated by Aneta B.
Target language: Latin

Si praeterito tempori decedere permittes, manus utrasque ad futurum carpendum in promptu habebis.

Validated by Aneta B. - 29 September 2011 21:27





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26 September 2011 19:38

alexfatt
Number of messages: 1538
Just a question...
Why "palmas" and not "manus"?

26 September 2011 19:46

Aneta B.
Number of messages: 4487
I think both are fine, Alex. But I can change it into 'manus' if you want.

26 September 2011 19:49

Aneta B.
Number of messages: 4487

26 September 2011 22:36

alexfatt
Number of messages: 1538
Oh, you didn't need to change it if it was fine.
I just wanted to know if there was a difference between the two nouns (since their Italian descendants "mano" and "palma" don't mean the same thing).

26 September 2011 23:26

Aneta B.
Number of messages: 4487
Dear Alex,
Of course “palma” and “manus” do mean slightly different things in Latin too:

palma = palm, hand; blade…
manus = hand (but also: corps, band, company, power…)

However they sometimes have got the same meaning and may replace each other, especially when some phrases are concerned, e.g.
-palmis suspensis/ manibus suspensis (with hands raised)
-habens palmas/manus in coelum erectas (having hands erected towards heavens),
-palmis/manibus capere (to catch, to seize with hands) etc.

Hope I was clear enough.

27 September 2011 00:15

alexfatt
Number of messages: 1538
Yes, you were. Thank you for your accurate explanation

29 September 2011 20:16

Efylove
Number of messages: 1015
I have a doubt about "pro+ablativus".
Isn't "ad futurum carpendum" better to translate a final clause?

29 September 2011 21:29

Aneta B.
Number of messages: 4487
Yes, you're right that "ad" is better.
(Pro + abl is a bit Medieval construction "Pro discendo. Pro vivendo"- For learning. For living).
Thank you!