GenesisCorrupted said:

Many mushrooms later
A summer breeze kisses you
A perfect day spent

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-L. Phosphorus

20 letter title, means 7 from fifty, or 43, for 43 letters, and 20 syllables in the poem

septemdequinquaginta
ubi unum conculcetur ibi onus ferreum isto imponet

written september 12, 2024

google t has it as

"where one is trodden down, there he will lay an iron burden on that one"

Where one may be downtrodden, there, in that, one will lay a cold load of iron

I must say L. did a little trick and went from a passive subjunctive downtrodden to a predicated active indicative imponet, to place, to lay in, over, upon, which is also to say the ferreum is dragging it down, the heavy weight. The weight pulled passivity into activity. There is the coldness. Ferreum is an adjective in the accusative. It means like iron, also can mean cruel, hard, firm, rigid, immoveable. the onus, the burden, is itself heavier because of the iron, because it frigifies, and makes the world more tougher, harder... Any cruelty inflicting upon a passivity renders the passivity an activity, which is the experience of the only option, which is some form of resistance. The passive subjunctive, while fundamentally uncertain, becomes an indicative certainty in activity, which would have been, in the old days, the people cursing whoever just came through with an entourage and had someone undeserving covered in mud from horses, and or trampled. This facilitates an active resentment from a passive reception of suppression from an authority. How can a passive uncertainty create an active certainty? by being pulled by resistance. That resistance may be diverted or however, but it will still remain, only to, perhaps build up.

You can get whatever meaning you want from his poem. All meanings matter, although some may be more ad rem.

it also means 'the onus, the burden, which was in this case trampled, imposes the iron-clad' , as in swords, chains, shackles. L. Phosphorus says they can only be melted down.


i asked my husband what he thinks about L.'s meaning behind "onus ferreus" , iron burden. He said. "I am God." He said it was like Atlas.

Quote:

Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5. 408 ff :
"[Depicted on the walls of the palace of Aeetes :] There iron Atlas stands in Oceanus, the wave swelling and breaking on his knees; but the god himself [Helios the Sun] on high hurries his shining steeds across the old man's body, and spreads light about the curving sky; behind with smaller wheel follows his sister [Selene the Moon] and the crowded Pleiades and the fires whose tresses are wet with dripping rain [the Hyades]."

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