This is what it always was and will always be
Where is the thus meaning in here from the word sic? And the word this is not written.
I've always wondered how these translations are made since I tried translating it (as a rookie) and got something along the lines of
Thus it always was and thus it always will be.
Source:
Translation generally isn't a one-to-one mapping between Latin words and English words. While sīc is often glossed as "thus", you might also translate it as "like this", or "in this way", or "in this sort of condition", or "accordingly", or "as you see".
Sīc erat means something like "it was like this" or "it was this sort of way", so I would say "this is what it was" (or perhaps "this is how it was") is a reasonable translation.
