Help With Latin

[Narukami]

A former professor from grad school sent me these wondering what the correct translation would be. (His areas of expertise are pre-modern Japanese Lit, Bunraku Theatre, and Japanese language.)


Came across these in a novel I'm reading:
On a sign outside a girl's finishing school
     Puellae venerunt
     Abierunt mulieres
I'm guessing that the first line means something like, "The young girls come [to us]"
"And they...........what?
 
Then: Veritatem, scientiam, humanitatem hic repperunt
"Truth, science, humanities ______ "


Thanks for any help you can provide.

:wink:

Narukami

[Praefectusclassis]

Translation is (I think): They came as girls and left as grown women.
Are you sure that's the text for the second line? If it's reppererunt, it becomes "And they found..."

[Narukami]

Thanks Jasper!

That is info I have straight from my professor -- perhaps he transcribed it incorrectly. I have sent it off to him and we will see if it makes any sense in the context of the story he is reading.

Thanks again.

:wink:

Narukami

[Jona Lendering]

I have sent it off to him and we will see if it makes any sense in the context of the story he is reading

Everything is better than the disgusting inscription they made opposite our local Latin school, here in Amsterdam: go here.

[Neuraleanus]

Everything is better than the disgusting inscription they made opposite our local Latin school, here in Amsterdam: go here.

:lol:

[Narukami]

hock:

Ah, the joys of a Classical Education.

:wink:

Narukami