Thu Jan 1 20:02:11 EST 2004 Started editing Carmina Latina and Carmina Latina de Nativitate Christi together before realizing they ought to be separate documents. Finishing the latter before returning to this.
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The late Harry C. Maynard taught Latin and Greek for many years at the University of Toronto Schools. I had the privilege of studying both from him until I graduated in 1981, and a high point of each year was the annual singing of Christmas Carols. Mr. Maynard had collected some, translated many himself, and distributed them together with some non-holiday songs on purple dittoes produced from typewritten masters to the dozens of students who would return to his classroom each year to sing, even long after they had stopped having time to study Latin the rest of the year.
This page is for the most part a placeholder until I have time to dig up and enter the canon. As a taste and Google target though, here's one.
Dūc, dūc, rēmōs dūcDūc, dūc, rēmos dūc bonō animō! Rīvulī, flūmina, maria omnia nōbīs grāta sītis! Nōnne dormīs frāter mī?Nōnne dormīs, nōnne dormīs, frāter mī, frāter mī? Sōnā mātūtīnās, sōnā mātūtīnās, dīn, dōn, dīn; dīn, dōn, dīn. Gaudeāmus igiturGaudeāmus igitur, juvenēs dum sumus. Gaudeāmus igitur, juvenēs dum sumus. Post jūcundam juventūtem, post molestam senectūtem, nōs habēbit humus, nōs habēbit humus. Ubi sunt, quī ante nōs in mundō fuēre? Ubi sunt, quī ante nōs in mundō fuēre? Trānseās ad superōs, abeās ad īnferōs, quōs sī vīs vidēre, quōs sī vīs vidēre. Vīvat Acadēmia! Vīvant prōfessōrēs! Vīvat Acadēmia! Vīvant prōfessōrēs! Vīvat membrum quodlibet, vīvant membra quaelibet, semper sint in flōre, semper sint in flōre! Actum, sodālēs, ob tempusNum amīcōrum veterum decet oblīviscī? Annōrum heu fugācium et temporis actī?
Actum, sodālēs, ob tempus
praeteritum tempus,
priusquam discesserimus,
manūs jungāmus.
Flōrēs ōlim dēcerpsimus lūdentēs in prātīs, sed aspera peragrāvimus diēbus ex illīs. Et agēbāmus vacuōs diēs ad rīvulum; sed dīvidit jam diū nōs aequor undōsum. |
Rudolphus (Words by HCM)Rudolphus, naso rubro, naso nitidissimo, si umquam eum spectes, dicas eum fulgere. Reliqui tum renones deridebant ludentes, semper vetabant eum apud ludos ludere. Deinde ante natalem Santa venit, et "Tu, Rudolphe nitide, traham meam duc nocte." Dein, ut renones amant, exclamantes hilare: "Rudolphe, naso rubro, in annalibus eris!" |