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This looks like the ‘corrected’ phrase – To love, hope against hope
Si amas, spera inspera = if you love, hope for the unhoped for
(google si amas, speret insperate)
you are a lover, so hope for the unexpected quae amatorem ut spem insperatam
because you love, hope for the unexpected quia amas spem insperatam
ANALYSIS
amo = I love
spero = I hope
inspero = unexpected, to not expect
insperatam, the unexpected, participle of inspero – tho elsewhere it is said there is no such verb
as inspero, and the valid construction is kind of a made up word
allowing the Interposition of a Preposition; as, insperans, not expr:ting; although there be no uch
Verb as inspero;
Catullus 107:
Si quicquam cupido optantique optigit umquam
insperanti, hoc est gratum animo proprie.
tr unknown:
If anything happened to one who is desirous and hopeful, yet unexpecting,
this is especially pleasing to the soul.
Leonard C. Smithers 1894
If ever something happens that you long for and want and is unhoped for, this is genuinely
pleasing to the soul.
Sir Richard Burton
An to one ever accrue any boon he lusted and longed for
Any time after despair, grateful it comes to his soul.
Tr H. Walker ???
IF anything ever happened to any one who eagerly longed
and never hoped, that is a true pleasure to the mind.
pera is an Latin word started with s. Here is the definition of spera in English
spera a sphere.
spera (n.pl.) hopes.
spera hopes (3 person present indic.
fac et spera
do and hope motto of clan matheson
Rom 4:18 qui contra spem in spem credidit who against hope in hope believed