Aure plurima

[Maroseika]

Hello. This is an inscription under the "Invention of printing" after Jan Collaert (1600):

Potest ut una vox capi aura plurima: linunt ita una scripta mille paginas.

Does "aura" figuratively mean "voice" (of other people)?
I.e. "One voice can catch a multitude of voices, and this is the way like a thousand of pages can be written"?

 

[bearded]

Hello
It's "aure plurima" in ablative case (not aura).

One voice can be caught/heard by several ears...Thus one written content can cover a thousand pages.

(That's my interpretation, but I find some dissonances in the Latin text. In particular:
- the function of the word 'ut' is unclear (to me, at least);
- 'una scripta' sounds as an incorrect plural, unless 'una' is an adverb meaning 'altogether', but it seems implausible).

Experts will hopefully confirm.

 

[Maroseika]

Thank you very much.

 

[Circunflejo]

It's "aure plurima" in ablative case (not aura).

Aura is ablative but of aura (wind, breeze, air...). Not fully sure if it could make some sense in the given text.

 

[bearded]

Not fully sure...

I clearly see 'aure' in the caption.

 

[Scholiast]

saluete amici,

With bearded, (# 2), I find aspects of this caption hard to make sense of. But I agree that aure (not aura) is clearly legible. There is however nothing wrong with ut: this is correlative with ita in the second part of the sentence ('In the same way as..., so...'). So 'In the same way as a single voice can be perceived [capi] by multiple ears, so things [hand-]written [only] once [una] bedaub [through printing] a thousand pages').

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[bearded]

ut: this is correlative with ita

Too bad it didn't occur to me!

 

[Circunflejo]

I clearly see 'aure' in the caption.

I clearly didn't see the caption.