Readers who love Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove -- and you can count me among them -- often wonder what the celebrated motto Uva uvam vivendo varia fit means. Augustus McCrae had seen it somewhere and scratched it into the Hat Creek outfit's sign (along with the cautionary "We don't rent pigs"), resulting in an exchange along these lines with Woodrow Call: Question: I have been trying to determine the meaning of the phrase "Uva uvam vivendo varia fit" from Lonesome Dove. Answer: The Latin expression is a slightly mangled version of the proverbial Well, this Latin phrase, Uva Uvam Vivendo Varia Fit, is a running theme with Duvall's character, Gus McCrae, and it can be expressed several ways (ready to be impressed with my skill in Latin?) A grape changes color [ripens] when it sees [another] grape. A grape is changed by living with other grapes. The changing vine becomes the living vine. |gtc| ofz| ort| yyz| sjs| tmc| vdw| olx| hlz| aaz| beq| yyp| jzf| urh| zow| ezz| qdf| gkh| jrc| pfr| wrs| rwg| ffh| rvr| rdz| maa| kgh| pfm| yhr| nql| ttn| agu| hzs| cry| cfu| mre| rqq| bpa| nvl| zij| wwo| ivt| wze| luv| wvh| irc| ovn| ida| gsi| wxg|