Help: Latin phrase?

Subject: RE: Help: Latin phrase?
From: Jim McLean
Date: 06 Sep 09 - 04:36 AM

Then there is the old one: sic transit gloria mundi Gloria was sick on the bus on Monday.

Subject: RE: Help: Latin phrase?
From: Weasel
Date: 06 Sep 09 - 04:49 AM

and, of course, "bi eci benedictine in decanter in aminibus"

Subject: RE: Help: Latin phrase?
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 06 Sep 09 - 06:10 AM

From the poet Lautrator:

'Coitus cum concertina raro tacite perfectus est.'

Don't tick me off for this, Roger Digby's already done it.

Valmai

Subject: RE: Help: Latin phrase?
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 11:14 AM

Sine Virtus, Sine Laus
could anyone translate this?
thx

Subject: RE: Help: Latin phrase?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 01:24 PM

Without virtue, no praise.

Subject: RE: Help: Latin phrase?
From: Darowyn
Date: 17 Aug 10 - 04:08 AM

'Virtus' is a bit more complicated in Latin. It's origin is in 'Vir', which means 'a man'- but it's 'a man' as used in the sense of
"You'll be a man my son" or
"A man's got to do what a man's got to do"
Implied in the word 'virtus' is the best of what a man can be.
You'd get closer to the feel of it with:-
"Without heroism, there's no fame."
My old school motto was "Virtutem Petamus" - often modified by the Latin scholars into "Virginem Petamus"
Cheers
Dave

Subject: RE: Help: Latin phrase?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Feb 17 - 05:41 PM

I believe it's Virgil... forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit