Friday, August 28, 2009

a.d. V Kal. Sep.

MEMORĀBILE DICTŪ

Rādīx omnium malōrum est cupiditās.
“The root of all evil is greed.” (I Timothy 6.10)

Paul made this famous statement in the first of his letters to Timothy. Th e text is quoted from the Latin translation of the scriptures, known as the Vulgate, which was mostly the work of Jerome, and completed in the fourth century CE.

From Latin for the New Millennium

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