# LLPSI, CAP. 34 -- lines 68 - 70

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**Created:** [June 21, 2026, 8:16pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/llpsi-cap-34-lines-68-70/31196 "2026-06-21T20:16:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Straitsfan](https://www.textkit.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Straitsfan](https://www.textkit.com/u/Straitsfan)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 8:16pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/llpsi-cap-34-lines-68-70/31196/1 "2026-06-21T20:16:39Z")

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Not sure of these lines:

“Ego memoria teneo versus Ovidii de puellae quae poetam industrium prohibebat bellum Troianum canere et Fatum regis Priami”

It’s the “quae poetam Industriumu prohibebat bellum Troianum canere…” part.

I think the sentence means “I have a memory of veruses of Ovid about the girl who prevented the industrious poet to write the beautiful Trojan song”

Or something like that. It’s the “bellum Troianum canere” that confuses me. Am I correct in this translation?

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**Author:** ![bedwere](https://www.textkit.com/user_avatar/www.textkit.com/bedwere/32/35_2.png) [@bedwere](https://www.textkit.com/u/bedwere)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2026, 9:02pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/llpsi-cap-34-lines-68-70/31196/2 "2026-06-21T21:02:07Z")

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There are typos in your transcription. Could you correct them and/or post a scan? Obviously [bellum](https://logeion.uchicago.edu/bellum) does not mean beautiful.

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**Author:** ![Straitsfan](https://www.textkit.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Straitsfan](https://www.textkit.com/u/Straitsfan)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2026, 12:08am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/llpsi-cap-34-lines-68-70/31196/3 "2026-06-22T00:08:14Z")

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My apologies. It’s ‘industrium’ and ‘bellum’ – but I forgot that bellum means war, yes?

I got it confused with the modern Italian “bella” 🙂

So it’s “Ego memoria teneo versus Ovidii de puellae quae poetam industrium prohibebat bellum Troianum canere et Fatum regis Priami”

So, does it mean “I have a memory of verses of Ovid about the girl who prohibited the great poet to write the Trojan war song, and the fate of King Priam.”

Is that correct?

I don’t know how to type macrons, either.

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**Author:** ![bedwere](https://www.textkit.com/user_avatar/www.textkit.com/bedwere/32/35_2.png) [@bedwere](https://www.textkit.com/u/bedwere)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2026, 1:40pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/llpsi-cap-34-lines-68-70/31196/4 "2026-06-22T13:40:03Z")

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No problem if you can not write the macrons, but it must be puellā. The rest seems OK to me.

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**Author:** ![IoannesSanctaeMariae](https://www.textkit.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/a87d85/32.png) [@IoannesSanctaeMariae](https://www.textkit.com/u/IoannesSanctaeMariae)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2026, 10:19pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/llpsi-cap-34-lines-68-70/31196/5 "2026-06-22T22:19:13Z")

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“Memoriā” is an ablative, not an accusative; the ablative case can be used to indicate where or in respect to what someone is or does something (e.g.: in chapter 11’s verse 55 it is written “Nec modo _pede_, sed etiam _capite_ aeger est.”, that is, he is _aeger_, but in his foot and his head, not in any other part of the body). “Memoriā tenēre” means “to know by heart” (as if he were holding, _tenēre_, those verses _in_ his memory, _memoriā_)_._

My translation into the most idiomatic English I can write would be “I know by heart some verses of Ovid about a girl who forbade him to sing the Trojan war and King Priam’s fate”.

I hope I have been useful!

Bene valē,  
Joannes.

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**Author:** ![bedwere](https://www.textkit.com/user_avatar/www.textkit.com/bedwere/32/35_2.png) [@bedwere](https://www.textkit.com/u/bedwere)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2026, 10:27pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/llpsi-cap-34-lines-68-70/31196/6 "2026-06-22T22:27:40Z")

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Thank you, I didn’t notice memoriā

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**Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 11:01pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/llpsi-cap-34-lines-68-70/31196/7 "2026-06-23T23:01:07Z")

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Glad to be useful!

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