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What does the Latin motto 'Fata prudentia major' mean in English?
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∙ 13y ago
The correct form of the quotation, which comes from the Georgics of Virgil (P. Vergilius Maro) is fato prudentia major. By itself, this can be translated "understanding [is] greater than fate", taking fato as the ablative of comparison.
In context, though, it is apparent that fato is in fact an ablative of cause:
haud equidem credo, quia sit divinitus illis
ingenium aut rerum fato prudentia major
not, indeed, that I think that they have from heaven
a natural wit, or by fate a greater understanding of things
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