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anyone knows what "ufq" means in the latin page?
by ggg3 7y ago
anyone knows what "ufq" means in the latin page?
- tom_ 7y agoIt's "usq", with a long S: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s - so it's an abbrevation for "usque".
- jfengel 7y agoIt's "usq"; that's a medial S (ſ) rather than an f. It's short for "usque", meaning "up to" or "as far as". A rough translation of the sentence would be "The experience teaches you as far as it can; the author can't say beyond what they've been given to speak."
- kleinerhexer 7y ago“usque” (see <http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3Dusque> http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...), because the second letter is a long s (“ſ”), not an “f”, and “q;” is the abbreviation for “que” as mentioned in the text: That semicolonish mark at the end of the fourth line from the bottom isn’t a semicolon, it’s an abbreviation for que, Latin for “and.”