May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest

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weasel
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May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest

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Would someone please help me translate this for my mother's grave ?

MatthaeusLatinus
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Re: May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest

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maybe

CHORI ANGELORVM TE IN REQVIEM CANANT

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THANK YOU M.L. That's quite the best I've seen !

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Also // Et hoc:
SOPIANT TE CARMINE ANGELORUM CHORI.
I'm writing in Latin hoping for correction, and not because I'm confident in how I express myself. Latinè scribo ut ab omnibus corrigar, non quod confidenter me exprimam.

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Many thanks to you Adrianus !

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Me paenitet, MathaeeLatine, quod aliter quam vis significat id quod proposuisti (scilicet CHORI ANGELORVM TE IN REQVIEM CANANT). Nisi fallor, TE CANANT ita vult dicere: te collaudant vel te in requiem discessisse [defectivo modo] canant.

I fear, MathaeusLatinus, that what you have means something different. Unless I'm mistaken, TE CANANT means "they sing about you" or "they sing of you ['your having passed', elliptically] to rest".

"Arma virumque cano"
I'm writing in Latin hoping for correction, and not because I'm confident in how I express myself. Latinè scribo ut ab omnibus corrigar, non quod confidenter me exprimam.

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