Can someone who speaks Latin please translate the remainder of the Werther’s inscription? Rowena even sort of lampshaded the fact that we didn’t hear the whole thing when she said, “That’s it?” From trying to piece it together myself based on various online dictionaries, it looks like it has the words for washing and water in it, which of course is very interesting insofar as it recalls the whole “river begins at the source” line.
Here’s the whole inscription, if someone could please take a crack at it! I’d be forever grateful.
arca turbata clavem inveniet ut obruat te ipsum arcam confutare sitit restinguere sanguine nostrum [line break] libido moriendi estu lavi aquae incubat in omnium mente sive dolorosa sive invidiosa sive pavida
Ok, so this is what I got (and this is rough, as I don’t have my latin textbook with me and I’m not awesome at tenses/cases anymore).
What Rowena skips over:
Arca turbata clavem inveniet ut obruat te ipsum The key of this wretched
box will overwhelm you itself
She reads aloud and Sam translates:
arcam confutare sitit restinguere sanguine nostrum To silence the box,
slake its thirst with the blood of our own
The second line (and here, I think it actually says moriendi est [u la] via quae which unfortunately omits all water/washing references, but does make sense for the events of the episode):
libido moriendi est u la via quae incubat in omnium mente sive dolorosa sive invidiosa sive pavida It lusts for death hatched
in all minds as pain or sorrow or hostility or terror
So what this translation
basically says is that opening the box will be pointless, because the process
of opening it will consume you, and then it also that it will bring death to
everyone else, too.
I think its interesting, if we accept that Rowena was just a projection of Sam’s mind, that Sam skipped over reading the parts that had the huge fucking warnings in them. He didn’t care about the personal cost, which is par for the course for the winchesters, but its notable that he also disregarded the warnings that would affect other people. The Suzie-projection called herself the first casualty in this particular crusade (I’m paraphrasing, sorry) and made Sam look at her body, so clearly a part of Sam feels really guilty about his actions – but none of that matters in the face of his need to save Dean. It’s basically Sam’s mind both saying “Damn the consequences,” and literally shouting at him to pay attention to them.
Also, looks like the conversation’s happening over here as well!
It was late last night
I was feeling something wasn’t right
There was not another soul in sight
Only you, only you
So we walked along
Though I knew that there was something wrong
And a feeling hit me, oh so strong
About you
Then you gazed up at me
And the answer was plain to see
‘Cause I saw the light
In your eyes, in your eyes
Though we had our fling
I just never would suspect a thing
Till that little bell began to ring
In my head, in my head
But I tried to run
Though I knew it wouldn’t help me none ‘Cause I couldn’t ever love no one
Or so I said
‘Cause my feelings for you
Were just something I never knew
Till I saw the light
In your eyes, in your eyes
But I love you best
It’s not something that I say in jest
‘Cause you’re different, girl, from all the rest
In my eyes
And I ran out before
But I won’t do it anymore
Can’t you see the light in my eyes
In my eyes
In my eyes
In my eyes
After Dean’s confession of desiring to experience some people differently than before or even for the first time, Castiel retrieving his grace and shining eyes, Dean addressing Castiel as one of the people who love him and aknowledging that it would kill him too as much as it would Sam if he ever tried and kill him how he asked him, it’s not even funny.
yes this is the song that played at the beginning of 10×19
I honestly think that the only reason I’m as okay as I am after that episode is because Dean was able to talk himself out of it, and im really proud of him for that.
Damn. That episode was heavy. They had some comedy bits to lighten it, but damn.
I enjoyed it, but it was a rather sudden veer into the dark side of this show.
Sam Winchester worries me, given what he’s capable of doing for Dean’s sake.
The first five minutes are brutal, if you’re sensitive to the subject matter, which I’m not usually, but it still made me stare in horror. Ditto for a good chunk of the climax of the episode. Dean talking himself out of the mindset was stellar, though.
And then Sam had to go and open the fucking box that caused it. Talk about Pandora’s Box – I’m pretty sure hers didn’t have a suicide curse protecting it.
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