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What are your favorite latin phrases?

>> No.21266549

Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem

>> No.21266554

>>21266504
Semen retentum, venenum est.

>> No.21266555

>>21266504
Maior e longinquo reverentia

>> No.21266557

>>21266554
kek beat me to it

>> No.21267408

>>21266504
Opus Fundatum Latinitas

>> No.21267608

>>21266504
Felix (Cognoscere) Causas.

"happy is he who knows the causes of things; (happy is he who casts beneath his feet all fear of doubt and the clamor of the underworld; the opinions of people),"
Virgil.

>> No.21267616

>>21267608
>"happy is he who knows the causes of things; (happy is he who casts beneath his feet all fear of doubt and the clamor of the underworld; the opinions of people),"
>Virgil.
or something like that anyway

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>>21266504
I am very cultured.

>> No.21267637

>>21266554
Is that an actual one, lol?
>>21266504
Dominus Illuminatio Mea
In Vino, Veritas
Semper Ubi, Sub Ubi

>> No.21267656

>>21267637
>>21266554
Never mind, found source - Belle du Jour...I can't say I'm surprised.

It should be changed to, "Semen retentum, vigorem est."

>> No.21267683

Carthago delenda est
Memento mori
Fortes Fortuna adiuvat
Ad Astra per aspera
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit
Panem et circenses

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>>21266504
Si tacuisse philosophus mansisse.

>> No.21267731

Womanus Beus Shoppingus

>> No.21267735

>>21266504
O deus meus

>> No.21267741

Consonus esto lupis, cum quibus esse cupis

>> No.21267757

Latinis linguinis gayus verus muchus

>> No.21267760

>>21267627
kultur frog

>> No.21267807

>>21266504
It's fun to use Latin phrases casually. Don't tiptoe respectfully round them; weave them into the text. (Schopenhauer does this quite a bit.)


LATIN: "Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius." ("Kill them all. God knows which are His.")
USEAGE: There may be a few honest journalists amongst the scoundrels. Too bad. Caedite eos, I say. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.

LATIN: "ipse dixit" ("I have said it"; i.e. a pronouncement made with no supporting evidence or argument)
USEAGE: Baudrillard sometimes says interesting things, but as with all Marxists, his ipse dixit arrogance at critical points quickly becomes insufferable.


Or you can break bits off and use them in your own sentences. You have to know which word means which thing, but there's no harm in getting the grammar wrong. It's up to Latin to adapt to English, not the other way around.


LATIN: "noli me tangere" ("touch me not" — Vulgate John 20:17)
USEAGE: There she sat with her babycham and her noli me tangere expression, but it was pretty obvious that if someone didn't tangere her soon she was going to explode.


You don't have to stick to prose. Light verse which mixes up different languages = 'macaronic verse':


LATIN: "de minimis non curat lex" ("the law does not concern itself with trifles")
USEAGE: A lecherous rascal named Rex / Uncovered his organ of sex: / But the judge let him go, / Saying "Surely you know / That de minimis non curat lex".

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>actually, it's pronounced "at cat-erah"

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>>21266504
Deus vult