A Conversation for Handy Latin Phrases
Just the thing to sound scholarly
The_High_school_library_guru Started conversation Feb 1, 2002
I love the choir graphic, it's very amusing.
I use my rather limited knowledge of Latin to sound scholarly when signing my friends yearbooks. My most commonly used phrase is "Always remember: In via est cisterna, in cisterna est aqua.", which is the first phrase I learned in Latin.
Which means: Always remember: In the road is a well, in the well is water.
"Pithy" Latin Phrases
Semisomna Posted Jun 11, 2002
Oh, no, I much prefer "In pictura est puella Romana, nomina Flavia. Etiam in pictura est altera puella, nomina Claudia." And as to why I have memorized the first two sentences of my ninth grade Latin book, I'm not exactly sure (for a while my brain kept trying to substitute those words for certain parts of Carmina Burana, which decidedly DOES NOT WORK.)
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