From: connolly@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: Need some Latin translated
Date: 4 Jan 93 04:27:09 GMT
Organization: Memphis State University

rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
 
>I've got about 60 short Latin phrases that I need translated...
 
Too bad no one *learns* this stuff any more.  Well, anyway:
 
>Vae victo vae victis
        Woe to the conquered [singular], woe to the conquered [plural].
>Quomodo vales
        (Sounds fake -- everything else sounds fine.)
        How are you doing?
>Visi (need the exact conjugation here)
        Perfect passive participle of video 'see'.  Either nominative
        masculine plural or (less likely) genitive neuter or masculine
        singular.
>Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor
        I see the better things and try them, but I follow the worse
        ones.
>Quis, quid, ubi, quibus auxiliis, cur, quomodo, quando
        (A traditional scholastic incantation, followed by journalists)
        Who, what, where, with what aids, why, how, when?
>Plaudite cives
        Applaud, citizens!
>Ita diis placuit
        Thus has it pleased the gods.
>Exegi momentum aere perennius
        (From one of Horace's more odious odes)
        I have demanded a monument more lasting than bronze.
>Victrix causa diis placuit sed victa catoni
        The victorious cause has pleased the gods, the conquered
        [cause] pleased Cato.
>Victurus te saluto
        I who am about to conquer salute thee.
>Fluctuat nec mergitur
        He/She/It fluctuates but is not submerged.
>Sol lucet omnibus
        The sun shines on everyone.
>Dignus est intrare
        He is worthy to enter.
>Ab imo pectore
        From the bottom of [my] heart.
>Bis repetita don't always placent (Latin/english mix)
        Things repeated twice don't always please.
>Et nunic, reges intelligite... erudimini qui judicatis terram
        (Should be nunc, not nunic.)
        And now, kings, understand...Be instructed, ye who judge the
        earth.
        (Sounds like a Psalm, but I don't know it.)
>Beati pauperes spiritu
        Blessed are the poor in spirit.
>Mon repos
        (This is French.  Same as _Mea requies_.)
>Mea Requies
        My rest.
>Maior e longinquo reverentia
        Respect increases with distance.
>Quousque tandem
        How long, dammit!
        (Start of Cicero's First Oration against Cataline)
>Vadere quo
        Go where?
>Gloria victis
        Glory to the conquered.
>Veritas odium parit
        Truth begets hatred.
>Vinum et musica laetificant cor
        Wine and music gladden the heart.
>De mortuis nil nisi bonum
        Speak only good of the dead.
>Qui habet aures audiendi audiat
        He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
>Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos
        As long as you are happy, you will count many friends.
>Uti, non abuti
        Use, don't abuse.
>Non licet omnibus adire corinthum
        Not everyone may go to Corinth.
        (Corinth was famous for its luxury and high living in Roman
        times, which is why St. Paul wrote *two* epistles
        to the Christians there.)
>Contraria contrariis curantur
        Opposites are cured by opposites.
>Quot capita, tot sensus
        There are as many opinions as there are heads.
 
Satis est.  (OK, it means "that's enough").
 
--Leo Rugiens
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