Meaning of praemium | Babel Free

Definitions

1. profit derived from booty
   declension-2, neuter
2. profit, advantage, prerogative, distinction
   declension-2, neuter
3. prize, reward, recompense
   declension-2, neuter
4. bribe, bribery
   declension-2, neuter
5. the ironical sense of a reward, etc., as a desired thought, feeling, result or outcome
   declension-2, figuratively, neuter

Equivalents

Examples

““… sōlāne perpetuā maerēns carpēre iuventā, nec dulcis nātōs, Veneris nec praemia nōris?” “… [will you] waste away alone, sorrowful all throughout your youth, never to have known sweet children, nor the rewards of Venus?” (That is, the pleasures of sexual love. Syncopation: nōris = nōveris. Translations vary – Mackail, 1885: “love’s bounty”; Knight, 1956: “all that Venus gives”; Mandelbaum, 1971: “the soft rewards”; Fitzgerald, 1981: “the crown of joy that Venus brings”; West, 1990: “the rewards of love”; Lombardo, 2005: “love’s joys”; Fagles, 2006: “all the gifts of love”; Ahl, 2007: “joys Venus offers, delights that she yields”.)”

“Beatitudo non est virtutis praemium, sed ipsa virtus.”

Happiness is not a reward of virtue, but is a virtue itself.

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