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What is your favorite Latin phrase?

This Latin "scholar" wants to know! Whether you know any Latin or not, I would like to know. Also - what do you think it means? :P
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docwho2100 docwho2100
 
 August 26, 2009 05:05 AM
This is hard - there are so many - serious and funny

I'll go with

amare et sapere vix deo conceditur - Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time

This saying captures how love can over ride the mind and senses...

But for some serious try - http://latin-phrases.co.uk/

And funny try - http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/r/dryfoo/www/Funny-pages/handy-latin.html
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• I very much enjoyed hearing everybody's Latin! It's not really dead after all, is it?

I had to go with docwho, since I haven't heard that one before, but it strikes me with its message.


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millerzl millerzl
 
August 26, 2009 02:48 AM
Ave caesar! Morituri te salutamus - Hail Caesar! We who are about to die salute you.

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buddawiggi buddawiggi
 
August 26, 2009 03:44 AM
Caveat emptor .. Let the buyer beware.


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psycgirl psycgirl
 
August 26, 2009 03:53 AM
Hannibal Lecter to Clarice Starling "Quid pro quo. I tell you things, you tell me things. Not about this case, though. About yourself. Quid pro quo. Yes or no?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn_MQnD_UnY
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madgolerto... madgolerto...
 
August 26, 2009 06:31 PM
Silence was a very powerful movie, and this one of the strongest scenes in it. I think it was a neat use of "Quid pro quo."

The "Nowhere Man" in Yellow Submarine presents my favorite use of "Quid pro quo" in a movie. :P

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kerryk kerryk
 
August 26, 2009 04:45 AM
E Pluribus Unum, meaning "Out of many, one"

http://maidenking.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/e-pluribus-unum.jpg

http://www.greatseal.com/mottoes/unum.html

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beast1oh1 beast1oh1
 
August 26, 2009 04:53 AM
"Veni, vidi, vici" -Julius Caesar

"I came, I saw, I conquered."


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albanian albanian
 
August 26, 2009 12:19 PM
Cogito sumere camum alterum ... I think I'll have another beer.

(Latin had different words for different styles of beer. Camum was a barley beer so probably closer to modern beers than the others.)


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aleghart aleghart
 
August 26, 2009 03:49 PM
Stercus cani est in tuae caligae.

Took a few minutes for the girl behind me to try and translate. She blushed and hit me with her dictionary.
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madgolerto... madgolerto...
 
August 26, 2009 06:31 PM
I thought that was very funny. Reminds me of the Latin my mates and I would write to each other during class. :P

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