Tres Comedias : $b Sin querer; De pequenas causas...; Los intereses creadosBenavente, Jacinto
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Tres Comedias : $b Sin querer; De pequenas causas...; Los intereses creados
Benavente, Jacinto
Comedy plays; Spanish drama; Spanish language -- Readers
[83.1] =todo lo enamorado y lo fiel y lo noble que tú quieras y ella
pueda desear= 'just as much in love and just as faithful and noble as you
like and she can desire.' =Lo= is used idiomatically before an adjective
followed by a clause with =que=; the adjective agrees with a following
noun or pronoun. The usual translation ('how') is impossible here. =Todo=
intensifies =lo=. For examples see Ramsey, § 1358.
[84.1] =me acusó más de torpe.= If, after =de=, we supply =ser=, the sentence
becomes clear.
[85.1] =¿Piensas... son para olvidarlas?= 'Do you think that the deeds of
Mantua and Florence are (of a nature) to be forgotten?' Note that
Spanish has the active infinitive (literally 'to forget them') where the
passive is used in English. =Las= is superfluous in translation.
[85.2] =Bolonia.= The Italian city of Bologna, especially famous as a
center of legal studies.
[85.3] =considerandos... resultandos.= Typical terms in legal documents
(cf. the Doctor's speech, page 104, lines 1-7). Crispín, making fun of
lawyers' language, uses the words as substantives and in the plural.
[89.1] =haceos del doliente.= An archaism; the modern idiom is =hacerse el
doliente=.
[89.2] =sabré.= Supply =hacer=.
[93.1] =summum jus, summa injuria.= A Latin saying found in Cicero, _De
Officiis_, 1, 10, 33, where it is quoted as proverbial. It means
literally "extreme law (justice) is extreme injustice," and refers to
cases where law is rigorously applied without regard to equity or to
circumstances. As Cicero puts it (in _De Officiis_, just before the
proverb quoted): "Injuries often exist through a certain chicanery and
an over-adroit but malicious interpretation of the law." A similar
phrase is found in Terence, _Heauton Timoroumenos_, vs. 796: =jus summum
saepe summa est malitia=.
[93.2] =Barbara, Celare, Dario, Ferioque, Baralipton.= Terms invented by
medieval scholastic logicians to help in remembering the various forms
(technically, moods) of syllogisms. The words in themselves are
meaningless. Their vowels represent different types of logical
propositions. This jargon (possibly familiar to a few university
graduates) is put in the Doctor's mouth for humorous effect; he is
depicted as fond of displaying learning. A similar legal speech occurs
in _le Bourgeois gentilhomme_ by Molière, Act 2, Scene 6.
[94.1] =¡Ésta es buena!= 'That's a good one!' As to this feminine see page
32, note 3.
[94.2] =las doce tablas.= The twelve tables constituting the first written
compilation of Roman Law, said by Livy and others to have been prepared
in two sections (first ten tables, then two) in the fifth century B. C.
(452 and later) by a decemvirate of which the principal member was
Appius Claudius.
[94.3] =Justiniano.= Justinian (483-565) the best known of the rulers of
the Eastern Roman Empire; he ordered the compilation of the great code
_corpus juris civilis_ ('body of the civil law').
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