April 3rd, 2023 Latin of the Day - "Serit arbores quae alteri saeclo prosint."
"Serit arbores quae alteri saeclo prosint."
"He plants trees that they may benefit another age/generation." Saeclo is a common syncopation of saeculo, an odd term for a poorly-defined period of time, usually 110 or 100 years. It often seems to be used roughly as "age" is used in English. As a reference to worldly time, it is later used to refer to the human world as opposed to the divine, the origin of the English word "secular," hence the common translation of the inscription on the seal of the United States, Novus Ordo Seclorum, as "New World Order" rather than the strictly more accurate "New Order of the Ages."
~ Caecilius Statius (c. 220 - 166 B.C.E.), Synephebi
a.d. III Nonas Apriles anno A.U.C. MMDCCLXXVI
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