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Post Your Favorite Latin Quotes
Today of course | All the gang at FR

Posted on 11/03/2003 2:40:42 PM PST by Mad Dawgg

Hey this is just a little break from the Election madness we will all be a part of tomorrow.

Post any Latin quotes you like whether they be serious or funny.

If you don't know any just do a google search on Latin Quotes there are some really great ones.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: archaeology; epigraphy; epigraphyandlanguage; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; history; language; latin; romans
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To: Mad Dawgg
'Tabula rasa' and 'modus vivendi' are two of my favorites.

61 posted on 11/04/2003 5:56:11 AM PST by new cruelty
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To: Mad Dawgg
probatum est - it has been proved
62 posted on 11/04/2003 5:58:40 AM PST by new cruelty
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To: new cruelty
Casus belli.

Probably not spelled right...let the scholars here improve me...

Great thread, bump!!
63 posted on 11/04/2003 6:07:33 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: Mad Dawgg
ecce signum - behold the proof!
64 posted on 11/04/2003 6:09:16 AM PST by new cruelty
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To: Mamzelle; All
Casus belli... I think you have the correct spelling.

Here is another favorite...

Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum

65 posted on 11/04/2003 6:11:19 AM PST by new cruelty
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To: new cruelty
bumpum us
66 posted on 11/04/2003 6:13:00 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: Mad Dawgg; All
I'm remembering a little more ...

deus ex machina - god from the machine

67 posted on 11/04/2003 6:18:23 AM PST by new cruelty
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To: Mad Dawgg
Post hoc ergo propter hoc

From this follows this...ie cause and effect..(something the Dems NEVER get right)

68 posted on 11/04/2003 6:40:31 AM PST by drc43
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To: Mad Dawgg
Romanes Eunt Domus
69 posted on 11/04/2003 6:42:07 AM PST by Tancred
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To: Mamzelle
bumpum us

or, the closest I can think of would be

'superfixus' - fixed on the top

cachinno! (laugh aloud = LOL)

70 posted on 11/04/2003 6:50:35 AM PST by new cruelty
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To: Mad Dawgg; Constitution Day; hobbes1; xsmommy; Loyalist
Latin ping. CD can say "baby got back" in Latin.
71 posted on 11/04/2003 6:56:38 AM PST by NeoCaveman (Ohio, vote no on Issue 1)
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To: dubyaismypresident; Mad Dawgg
Magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri!
72 posted on 11/04/2003 7:26:31 AM PST by Constitution Day (Large buttocks are pleasing to me, nor am I able to lie concerning this matter!)
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To: Constitution Day
a true renaissance man are ye, CD....
73 posted on 11/04/2003 7:27:52 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
Heh. It can be quite a burden.
74 posted on 11/04/2003 7:40:45 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: drc43
Post hoc ergo propter hoc

From this follows this...ie cause and effect..(something the Dems NEVER get right)

No. "Before this, therefore because of this." Post hoc ergo propter hoc is a logical fallacy.

Because one thing happens before another does not prove the first caused the second.

SD

75 posted on 11/04/2003 8:39:46 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: Mad Dawgg
adventavit asinus, pulchritude et fortissimus...


doubt that I have the spelling and tenses 100%, but how many people that you know does this apply to

the ass arrived, beautiful and most brave.
76 posted on 11/04/2003 9:10:17 AM PST by dmz
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To: dmz
Boom-shaka-laka-laka, Boom-shaka-laka-laka...

or maybe, Gitchy Gitchy ya-ya ga-ga...

77 posted on 11/04/2003 11:35:43 AM PST by frodolives (Moose bites kan be pretti nasti)
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To: Mad Dawgg
Here's a link to more handy dandy Latin phrases.
78 posted on 11/04/2003 11:44:17 AM PST by Slip18
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To: general_re
Vox Bellafonte Vox Deo
79 posted on 11/05/2003 2:42:11 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Mad Dawgg
SUA SPONTE

new RANGER motto - 'Of Their Own Accord.'

80 posted on 11/06/2003 2:43:55 AM PST by Khurkris (Ranger On...currently posting from outside of CONUS.)
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