[MR] Translation please

[Joseph FitzStefan]

 Greetings to you as well,

 I am unsure of the first quotation. The second, "En hominem in conjecturis sane audacissimus!"
says something like "Behold a man who is exceeding bold in his
conjectures" or "Look how daring he is in his guess work" or maybe just
"What a ballsy bastard!"



 The problem for me comes from "sane" which usually intensifies things. In this case "audacissimus" is already about as intense a word as one can use. So it seems like overkill to say "sane audacissimus", sort of like saying "really most bestest".

 I think that there is a shade of meaning that I am missing.



 Y.I.S.

 Iosef Cappeler

----- Original Message ----
From: Sandi Rust <feo2mouse at yahoo.com>
To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
Sent: Saturday, 31 March, 2007 2:45:19 AM
Subject: [MR] Translation please

Greetings to the Tavern!
   
  Whist reading Apicius, I came across a couple of untranslated passages; and not being adept in any language (and as you can tell from my grammar - English is lacking as well), I am now being bothered by what is not understood.
   
  Could anyone provide me with an accurate translation?
   
  " Que res tota spectat medicinæ partem, que diaitetike appalature, et victu medetur: at in bac (hac?) tes diaitetikes parte totus est Apicius noster."
   
  and the other (so far):
   
  "En hominem in conjecturis sane audacissimus!"
   
  Thank you in advance,
   
  Marie Hélène of the New forest

 
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