Walter Map
Walter Map
Walter Mapwas a medieval writer of works written in Latin. Only one work is attributed to Map with any certainty: De Nugis Curialium...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionWriter
healing hands surgeons
Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.
faults alive i-am-alive
Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo. My only fault is that I am alive.
pigs feet numbers
The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
death drinking alcohol
If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
hate degenerates persistent
The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love.
boys rose monk
Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer. I have heard before of a monk throwing himself on a boy, but the boyalways rose again afterwards.