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.
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.’
Too funny, we posted the same
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."
“Visa” could also be feminine singular rather than neuter plural — thereby modifying “Luna” -— moon.
Was wondering though if part of that is from Thomas Gray’s poetry ....
Latin for "you're outta here"????
Yep. That’s what Viking Kitties do to trolls! :0)
I only know one.
Et en Arcadia Ego.
Even in paradise, I death, hold sway.
# 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.
life on the moon, Visa to you before eye , and mark major image.
Where the *$#@ IS THIS FROM?!
BTW, do you know an official from Rome named Bigus Dikus?
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17 minutes for a move. Not good.
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.
You mean I missed out on a Zot today?
“Flu Formerly Known As Swine”? Kinda reminds of me of another PNW FReeper.
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.
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