“Ora et Labora” (from Henrik Harder, Epigrams 1)
Ut felix sit opus tuum, precare;
ut felix sit opus tuum labora.
Ceu nil proficerent preces, labora;
ceu nil proficeret labor precare.
So that your toil may turn out happy, pray;
So that your toil may turn out happy, work.
As if your prayers would profit nothing, work;
As if your work would profit nothing, pray.
E. J. Hutchinson
E.J. Hutchinson is Associate Professor of Classics at Hillsdale College, where he also directs the Collegiate Scholars Program. He is the editor and translator of Niels Hemmingsen’s On the Law of Nature: A Demonstrative Method.
