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Can anyone define these sentences for me: “Ego venit , ego posteri , ego eram zotted.”

Posted on 04/12/2009 12:15:48 PM PDT by 1believer

# De Principiis Cogitandi. Liber Secundus. (1 result) 11 Visa tamen tardi demum inclementia morbi

# Luna habitabilis (1 result) 24 Visa tibi ante oculos, et nota major imago.


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101 posted on 04/12/2009 7:54:49 PM PDT by Thunder90
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To: 1believer

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. `Of course you don’t — till I tell you. I meant “there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!”’

`But “glory” doesn’t mean “a nice knock-down argument,”’ Alice objected.

`When _I_ use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

`The question is,’ said Alice, `whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.’

`The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master - - that’s all.’

Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. `They’ve a temper, some of them — particularly verbs, they’re the proudest — adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs — however, _I_ can manage the whole of them! Impenetrability! That’s what _I_ say!’

`Would you tell me, please,’ said Alice `what that means?`

`Now you talk like a reasonable child,’ said Humpty Dumpty, looking very much pleased. `I meant by “impenetrability” that we’ve had enough of that subject, and it would be just as well if you’d mention what you mean to do next, as I suppose you don’t mean to stop here all the rest of your life.’

`That’s a great deal to make one word mean,’ Alice said in a thoughtful tone.

`When I make a word do a lot of work like that,’ said Humpty Dumpty, `I always pay it extra.’


102 posted on 04/12/2009 9:06:33 PM PDT by JRios1968 (The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
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To: Dosa26

Too funny, we posted the same


103 posted on 04/12/2009 9:07:34 PM PDT by JRios1968 (The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
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To: SkyDancer; 1believer
Liberi ("the free ones") can mean "children." Liber Secundus could *possibly* mean "The Second Free One" but a more likely possibility is "The Second Book."

Ego venit , ego posteri , ego eram zotted. Looks like very bad Latin to me. Venit means "he/she/it has come." It can also be present tense. "I have come" would be Veni. The Ego is not necessary.

posteri -- "the ones after." It could be "descendants."

ego eram zotted. -- apparently what was meant is "I was zotted."

De Principiis Cogitandi. Liber Secundus. On the principals of thinking. Book Two. (Many book titles begin with De. There was Caesar's De Bello Gallico; Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, and many others. Actually Caesar's title was probably longer but that's the short title.

Visa tamen tardi demum inclementia morbi Hmmm...looks like "nevertheless the harshness of slow illness has been seen, finally." That doesn't seem to quite fit with the first part though.

Luna habitabilis. Visa tibi ante oculos, et nota major imago. "The inhabitable moon. Things seen unto you before your eyes, and a larger image has been noted."

104 posted on 04/12/2009 9:10:11 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: scrabblehack

“Visa” could also be feminine singular rather than neuter plural — thereby modifying “Luna” -— moon.


105 posted on 04/12/2009 9:13:29 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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106 posted on 04/12/2009 9:43:43 PM PDT by 50mm (My respect for zero has reached zero)
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To: scrabblehack

Was wondering though if part of that is from Thomas Gray’s poetry ....


107 posted on 04/12/2009 9:44:18 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: JRios1968
"ego eram zotted.”

Latin for "you're outta here"????

108 posted on 04/12/2009 9:46:37 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: 50mm

Yep. That’s what Viking Kitties do to trolls! :0)


109 posted on 04/13/2009 1:57:59 AM PDT by paulycy (BEWARE the LIBERAL/MEDIA Complex)
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To: 1believer

I only know one.

Et en Arcadia Ego.

Even in paradise, I death, hold sway.


110 posted on 04/13/2009 2:01:22 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: 1believer
# De Principiis Cogitandi. Liber Secundus. (1 result) 11 Visa tamen tardi demum inclementia morbi

# De Principiis Cogitandi. Liber Secundus. (1 result) 11 Visa tamen tardi demum inclementia morbi

# Luna habitabilis (1 result) 24 Visa tibi ante oculos, et nota major imago.

# Luna habitabilis (1 result) 24 Visa tibi ante oculos, et nota major imago.

ZOT!

111 posted on 04/13/2009 4:42:42 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (It took almost 250 years to make the USA great and 30 days for "The Failure" BO to tear it down.)
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To: tet68
For me it's: "Omnia Gallia divisa in tres partes est." That and the obligatory Ego amo te all High School dweebs think is cool to learn...and never get to use.:)
112 posted on 04/13/2009 5:43:01 AM PDT by Sudetenland (Victory in 2012...but first Victory in 2010!!!)
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This is what I came up with on a intertran translator: 1 About Beginning Thorough consideration. Free Second. Visa nothwithstanding to impede at length inclementia sickness

life on the moon, Visa to you before eye , and mark major image.

Where the *$#@ IS THIS FROM?!

113 posted on 04/13/2009 10:43:59 AM PDT by mainestategop (MAINE: The way communism should be)
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EGO venit , EGO osis , EGO zotted

BTW, do you know an official from Rome named Bigus Dikus?


114 posted on 04/13/2009 10:49:46 AM PDT by mainestategop (MAINE: The way communism should be)
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To: Monkey Face; grey_whiskers; wolf24; Danae; Pippin; Grizzled Bear; mainestategop; Mycroft Holmes; ...
Okay, folks. I need your help here. Back in March we did Finnish, and I wound up in Helsinki. Mrs. Sionnsar would like to see Rome again (and show it to me for the first time), so this month we're doing Latin. Ouday ouyay atinlay eakspay? How do you say "beer" in Latin?

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115 posted on 04/30/2009 6:10:21 PM PDT by sionnsar ((Iran Azadi | 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | "Also sprach Telethustra" - NonValueAdded)
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To: sionnsar

17 minutes for a move. Not good.


116 posted on 04/30/2009 6:11:24 PM PDT by sionnsar ((Iran Azadi | 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | "Also sprach Telethustra" - NonValueAdded)
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To: sionnsar

Hmm. I never learned how to say “beer” in latin, but in honor of the Flu Formerly Known As Swine I can say “Manus manum lavat”.

That and “elepantus non capit murem”.

That’s it for my seventh grade latin class.


117 posted on 04/30/2009 6:20:20 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (I'm the one Janet warned you about)
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You mean I missed out on a Zot today?


118 posted on 04/30/2009 6:22:28 PM PDT by Pippin
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“Flu Formerly Known As Swine”? Kinda reminds of me of another PNW FReeper.


119 posted on 04/30/2009 6:24:38 PM PDT by sionnsar ((Iran Azadi | 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | "Also sprach Telethustra" - NonValueAdded)
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To: sionnsar

How do you say “beer” in Latin?

How do you say “we made wine from barley and hops”, in Latin?

That’s where the answer to this and other age old questions could be found.


120 posted on 04/30/2009 6:27:04 PM PDT by fanfan (God, Bless America, please.)
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