cento
νήπιοι, οἷς ταύτῃ κεῖται νόος, οὐδὲ ἴσασιν ὡς χρόνος ἔσθ᾿ ἥβης καὶ βιότου ὀλίγος θνητοῖς. ἀλλὰ σὺ ταῦτα μαθὼν βιότου ποτὶ τέρμα ψυχῇ τῶν ἀγαθῶν τλῆθι χαριζόμενος → fools, to think like that and not realise that mortals' time for youth and life is brief: you must take note of this, and since you are near the end of your life endure, indulging yourself with good things | Poor fools they to think so and not to know that the time of youth and life is but short for such as be mortal! Wherefore be thou wise in time, and fail not when the end is near to give thy soul freely of the best.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
cento: ōnis, m. κέντρων,
I a garment of several bits or pieces sewed together, a rag-covering, patchwork, etc., Cato ap. Fest. s. v. prohibere, p. 234 Müll.; id. R. R. 2, 3; 10, 5; Lucil. ap. Non. p. 176, 1; Sisenn. ib. p. 91, 27; Caes. B. C. 2, 9; 3, 44 fin.; Dig. 33, 7, 12.—
2 Esp., a cap worn under the helmet, Amm. 19, 8, 8.—
B Prov.: centones sarcire alicui, to impose upon by falsehoods, Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 19.—
II The title of a poem made up of various verses of another poem, a cento; so the Cento Nuptialis of Ausonius (the thirteenth of his Idyls), etc., Isid. Orig. 1, 38, 25; Tert. Praescr. 39.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
(1) centō,¹² ōnis, m. (cf. κέντρων),
1 pièce d’étoffe rapiécée, morceau d’étoffe : Cato Agr. 2, 3 ; Cæs. C. 2, 10, 7 ; 3, 44, 7 || [fig.] centones alicui sarcire Pl. Epid. 455, conter des bourdes à quelqu’un
2 centon, pièce de vers en pot-pourri [vers ou bribes de vers pris à divers auteurs] : Aus. Idyll. 13 ; Aug. Civ. 17, 15.
