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What does Operor non permissum nothus homo frendo vos solum mean in English?
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∙ 14y ago
I don't care what Wikipedia says (or used to say): this is not a syntactically correct way of translating "Don't let the bastards grind you down" into Latin. But apparently someone thinks it is.
Henry Beard (in his book Latin for Even More Occasions) has provided an excellent translation in real Latin: Noli nothis permittere te terere.
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Did Queen Esther have any children?
A:The Book of Esther does not record any children of Queen Esther. There is no record anywhere in the Persian records of a Queen Esther, and historians say that King Xerxes was married to Queen Amestris at the very time the Book says he divorced Queen Vashti and married Esther, remaining married to her for at least the next several years. So we can not look for answers in the Bible or in history. A Jewish tradition holds that Esther had one son, Darius II. It is true that we do not know the name of the mother of Darius II, but she could not have been Queen Esther. Darius II was known as Darius Nothus (Darius the bastard) because his mother was a concubine, Artaxerxes having no surviving legitimate heir, and therefore Darius II would could not have been the son of a legitimate queen. If Esther really was married to Xerxes as stated in the Book of Esther, she would have been a legitimate queen, not a concubine. Thus, the final word comes from biblical scholars, who say that the Book of Esther was a second-century-BCE Jewish novel. The author did not intend Queen Esther to have had children.Answer:It is true that the book of Esther does not record her having had any children but we might assume that she did have children. After all King Xerxes (Ahasuerus) was besotten by Esther when he first set his eyes on her. Every King likes to leave seed, i.e. children who would take over the family name when he is gone; so it is not hard to imagine that Esther had children. According to Ohr Somayach:"While we do not know a lot about what happened to Esther, one thing that we do know is that she had a son, Darius, who became King Darius II. She brought him up to be favorable to the Jews and he eventually lifted the ban against the rebuilding of the Beit Hamikdash (Holy Temple), which led to the building of the Second Temple."The Persians kept historical records, but some were lost over time. One has to imagine that either this was recorded (of Esther's son) or was not recorded at all.I find the Bible to be an accurate piece of history. We should not doubt the Bible which is the written word of God.
How many children did Esther have?
There is no record anywhere in the Persian records of a Queen Esther, although the Book of Esther says that King Xerxes I married her soon after he divorced Vashti in the third year of his reign. In fact, historians say that King Xerxes was married to Queen Amestris at that very time and remained married to her for at least the next several years. So we can not look for answers in history.If Esther really was married to Xerxes, as stated in the Book of Esther, she would have been queen, legitimately married. Darius II was known as Darius Nothus {Darius the bastard) because his mother was a concubine, Artaxerxes having no surviving legitimate heir, and therefore Darius II would could not have been the son of a legitimate queen. Thus, we have no secure information about any sons of Esther.The final word comes from biblical scholars, who say that the Book of Esther was a second-century-BCE Jewish novel, so its characters only have relationships defined by the book's author.
