Above: the small wooden footbridge was destroyed by a fallen tree.
The circular walk around Fernillee is one of my favourites, and the higher path through the woods is particularly attractive. So I’m hoping they’ll finish it soon.
Progredere aequo animo per concursationem ut cogitas quantam sit inter selenium tranquilliatem
I found an online translation service, but the results weren’t very promising: ‘To go forth sea breath very concursationem when thorough consideration if he is among silence tranquilliatem’.
Google’s translation service didn’t fare much better: ‘Method would be content to think in the rush to be among the seleniums tranquilliatem’.
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Gail has emailed this translation: ‘Go forth content to think in the rush that is the calm silence’. I like that!
And here’s another – this one from Julian, a keen walker, and John, his classics friend: ‘Go forth with a patient mind through the chaos as you think just how much tranquility may exist amongst the silence.’
John explains: “It’s a funny sentence grammatically and took me a while to figure out. The word ‘concursatio’ (that’s its nominative form) usually appears, albeit very rarely, in military narratives, where it usually means a skirmish, or two masses of people smashing into each other. I have, therefore, rendered it as ‘chaos’.
James has cracked it! See his comment below…
I believe this is possibly a rendition into Latin of the first line of “Desiderata”, a poem by Max Hermann. The original opening line reads; “Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence…”
It rang a bell because a copy of this poem hung on my late grandmother’s wall in her home for as long as I can remember, and she often quoted it. Indeed, we all associated it so much with her that it was read at her funeral earlier this year. Hope that is helpful.