I'd like to hear how you understand this verse by Cato:
Quae culpare soles, ea tu ne feceris ipse:
Turpe est doctori, cum culpa redarguat ipsum.
It's been translated by Wayland Johnson Chase like this:
Do not thyself what thou art wont to blame;
When teachers slip themselves, 't is double shame.
Unfortunately, I find the poetic translation a bit difficult to understand so it doesn't help me much. What would be a literal translation of "cum culpa redarguat ipsum"...
A verse by Cato
Quae culpare soles, ea tu ne feceris ipse:
Turpe est doctori, cum culpa redarguat ipsum.
It's been translated by Wayland Johnson Chase like this:
Do not thyself what thou art wont to blame;
When teachers slip themselves, 't is double shame.
Unfortunately, I find the poetic translation a bit difficult to understand so it doesn't help me much. What would be a literal translation of "cum culpa redarguat ipsum"...
A verse by Cato
