Need translation into Latin

[PLMerite]

Any Latin Scholars out there?

[PLMerite]

Used to be an unofficial motto of the 11th Special Forces Group (Abn)(Reserve): "Fight, 'Fornicate,' or Die!" I missed my chance to get the t-shirt, and I've forgotten what exactly the Latin phrase was. Any help?

This is my first attempt at making a new thread - if I've messed it up terribly, just delete it.

[martin_fierro]

Try this

[martin_fierro]

Or these

[hole_n_one]

Here is a Pig Latin translator, if that'll help.

[farmfriend]

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[Romulus]

Why Latin? If our boys and girls in uniform are that proud of their philosophy, shouldn't they be happy to proclaim it in the vernacular? Come to think about it, why pussy-foot around with genteel Latinisms like "fornicate" when the Anglo-Saxon is so much more soldier-like? Wasn't publicly-funded sex education supposed to get us past all those euphemisms and hangups? What're the taxpayers getting for their money, anyway?

[inertia123]

And your name is Romulus? You crack me up.

[Mo1]

FOFL .. Pig Latin ???

[hole_n_one]

You know me.......always trying to help in any way I can.

LOL!

[Salvation]

Is Alamo Girl going to run another thread. I never accessed it before.

[Antoninus]

Pugnare, Copulare, aut Morere? Something like that?

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

why pussy-foot around with genteel Latinisms like "fornicate" when the Anglo-Saxon is so much more soldier-like?

"Fight, 'Fornicate,' or Die!"

[inertia123]

Except that those are infinitives, right? I think we need the imperative mood.

[Romulus]

Just the sentiments you'd expect from a citizen-soldier?

[inertia123]

My guess: Pugna, fornica, aut more!

(Or the plural imperative: Pugnate, fornicate, aut morete!)

I think "copulare" is too nice of a word. Fornication is derived from the Latin word for brothel. I'm sure there's a better dirty word but I can't think of it.

[Consort]

fight
1. battuere, dimicare, fendere, pugnare

coition:
1. clinopale, coetus, coitus

connubialis : sexual.
connubium : sexual union.

die
1. mori
2. alea, cubus

[PLMerite]

"Pugnare, Copulare, aut Morere? Something like that?"

What I remember the shirt saying (from about 1985) is "Pugilisticum, Fornicatum, et Morti," but from what I've looked up in the online Latin dictionaries, that can't be it. Probably selective memory on my part.

Of course, I'm assuming that they guy who thought the thing up had any of it right to start with...

[Alamo-Girl]

Since the individual profile pages are so easy to create - and so many are using them - I haven't been updating the list format. If y'all think the list format is helpful, perhaps I should go for another revision.

[PLMerite]

"(Or the plural imperative: Pugnate, fornicate, aut morete!) "

That sounds pretty close to what my aging brain cells remember...is that what Spartacus would have yelled at the approaching Legion?

[Ken H]

"Vini, Vidi, Vichey"

"I came, I saw, I surrendered."