[David Burn]
> "David Stevenson" <bridge2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:PVGbgFP4mvhFFwWe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > As I suggested might happen, OKBridge has decided to accept a
monthly
> > article from me for publication in their monthly newsletter. While I
am
> > the successor to Tuna and his Netiquette it has been decided that I
might
> > write on more general subjects, and we are really just seeing how it
goes.
> > Feedback, either here, to OKBridge's discuss, or by email to me, is
> > appreciated.
> >
> > The title, David's Word, was not my idea, though I quite like it!
>
> You may be amused to learn its provenance.
>
> The thirteenth-century hymn known as the Dies Irae, thought to be by
Thomas
> of Celano and set to music by more than one composer including Mozart
and
> Verdi as part of the Requiem Mass, begins:
>
> Dies irae dies illa
> solvet saeclum in favilla
> teste David *** Sybilla.
>
> In the most popular of the many translations of the work, this is
rendered:
>
> Day of wrath and doom impending,
> Heaven and Earth in ashes ending,
> David's word with Sybil's blending.
>
> The second stanza will particularly appeal to tournament directors:
>
> Quantus tremor est futurus
> quando judex est venturus
> cuncta stricte discussurus.
>
> In the same translation:
>
> O! what fear man's bosom rendeth
> When from Heaven the judge descendeth
> On whose sentence all dependeth.
>
> If the director knows his business and has brought the law book to the
> table:
>
> Liber scriptus proferetur
> in quo totum continetur
> unde mundus judicetur.
>
> which is to say (for sufficiently vague values of "exactly"):
>
> Lo! the book exactly worded,
> Wherein all hath been recorded -
> Thence shall judgment be awarded.
>
> Should the ruling go to appeal:
>
> Judex ergo *** sedebit
> quidquid latet apparebit
> nil inultum remanebit.
>
> or:
>
> When the Judge his seat attaineth
> And each hidden deed arraigneth,
> Nothing unavenged remaineth.
>
> In those cir***stances, it is best to throw yourself upon the clemency
of
> the Committee:
>
> Quid sum miser tunc dicturus?
> Quem partonum rogaturus
> *** vix justus sit securus?
>
> What shall I, frail man, be pleading?
> Who for me be interceding
> When the just are mercy needing?
>
>
> The best of luck with your endeavours. Or to put it another way, tantus
> labor non sit cassus...
>
> David (no relation) Burn
> London, England
[nige1]
Thank you David
Great stuff :) :) :)
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