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This Latin phrase from Lonesome Dove is neither nonsense nor bad Latin. It means "A grape becomes mottled by being a grape," with the sense: it is the nature of a grape to become "mottled" as it ripens.
8 Μαρ 2018 · In Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Lonesome Dove, Augustus McCray added the phrase “Uva uvam vivendo varia fit” (91) to the Hat Creek Cattle Company sign because he believed that it ...
Lonesome Dove. By Larry McMurtry. August 15th 2012. The Latin motto, "Uva Uvam Vivendo Varia Fit," is inscribed on Gus and Woodrow’s Hat Creek Cattle Company sign. It refers to a Latin proverb - "Uva Uvam Videndo Varia Fit"- first attributed to the Roman Poet Juvenal.
11 Σεπ 2000 · Help--The literal translation of Uva Uvam Vivendo Varia Fit is: "The versatile grape becomes a grape by living". The phrase is from "Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurty. McMurty gives it this translation: "A grape matures by looking at another grape".
13 Μαΐ 2015 · So what does Latin, grapes and Lonesome Dove have to do with horses? Among horseman, there is a saying that I have found to be fairly evident: “Horse and human; one is a mirror of the other.” Said another way, your horse reflects you.
11 Οκτ 2018 · The Quotable Lonesome Dove: Well Its A Motto, It Just Says Itself — Lonesome Lands. Well first man that comes along that can read Latin is invited to rob us as far as I’m concerned. I’d like the chance to shoot at a educated man once in my life.
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