Alea iacta est.

[Mister Pleasant]

Fella me, ovium fututors!

Anyone care to translate that?

[Martinus]

Ok, so we agree there is a number of Latin quotes that are known. Can we now please move on

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Snapcase


I've never even heard of the first one (though likely I will kick myself when hearing the translation...)

E pluribus unum - From many - one.

[Mister Pleasant]

Martinus -

Matrem futue.
Te non ludificor. Mater tua optimus est. Credo mihi - ego scio.


Just kidding

[Alex]

Another famous one: "Delenda Carthago est", or "Delenda est Carthago" (it makes no difference). Scipio, the African, always used that expression on his speeches against Carthago. By the way, it means "May Carthago be destroyed" or "Carthago must be destroyed" (depending on the subtlety of interpretation )

[Buck Birdseed]

To answer the original question: here's another potential trivia question. Can you see what's wrong with it?

Who uttered this famous quote: "Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays où il existe 258 variétés de fromage?"

- Churchill
- Stalin
- De Gaulle
- Mussolini

[Nemo]

Originally posted by Snapcase


I've never even heard of the first one (though likely I will kick myself when hearing the translation...),

its on US dollar bills

Naw, the most famous latin quotes would have to be Descartes' "Cogito ergo sum"

ahhh! yes. very famous indead!

(thank God my Descartes book is in english, and i didn't have to translate that book from latin like i did many other books ... *sigh* 3years and 3semester of latin sucked.)

[Adm.Naismith]

Originally posted by Snapcase
To answer the original question: here's another potential trivia question. Can you see what's wrong with it?

Who uttered this famous quote: "Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays où il existe 258 variétés de fromage?"

- Churchill
- Stalin
- De Gaulle
- Mussolini

Sure you have a point, if language really spoil the trivia.

But, ehi, it's a trivia you can cheat as you want. I play it seldom, and never check before for the right answer, where the world and his dog admit to search encyclopedia or Internet to get any answer correct

OTOH, Who declared in 1963: "Ich bin ein Berliner"?

- John F. Kennedy
- Charles De Gaulle
- Albert Einstein
- Sid Meier

I mean, sometime the original quote doesn't do any bad to the question, does it?

[Adm.Naismith]

Originally posted by Alexnm
Another famous one: "Delenda Carthago est", or "Delenda est Carthago" (it makes no difference). Scipio, the African, always used that expression on his speeches against Carthago. By the way, it means "May Carthago be destroyed" or "Carthago must be destroyed" (depending on the subtlety of interpretation )

My scholastic memories are more on the line of Catone (probably translated as "Cato the censor" in english) asking for "Cartago delenda est" in Roman Senate.

BTW, I'm italian, but I never studied latin, if not some quotes in history lessons.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Adm.Naismith
OTOH, Who declared in 1963: "Ich bin ein Berliner"?

- John F. Kennedy
- Charles De Gaulle
- Albert Einstein
- Sid Meier

Translation: "I am a jelly doughnut". Seriously.

[Adm.Naismith]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Translation: "I am a jelly doughnut". Seriously.

"I'm a Berliner" is the translation of wanted spoke AFAIK and many site mentioned it.

The explanation of KrazyHorse joke can be read here.

[shade]

Hello ppl I read some real BS here,geez,let's start venting out the pseudo:

"Et tu, Brute?"

this one should be 'Tu quoque fili mi' (You also my son.(Caesar had Brutus adopted so he could be his successor))said by Caesar when he got stabbed by Brutus,BUT CAESAR WILL RATHER HAVE SAID THAT IN GREEK THAN IN LATIN ,but it is known in Latin.

next:

Originally posted by Alexnm
Another famous one: "Delenda Carthago est", or "Delenda est Carthago" (it makes no difference).By the way, it means "May Carthago be destroyed"

euh NOOooo what you say means:Carthage IS destroyed
this comes from CATO CENSOR(censor is some political job for those who don't know).He always ended his speech at the senate withCETERI CENSEO,CARTHAGINEM ESSE DELENDAM :"and furthermore it is my opinion that Carthage should be destroyed."(what the Romans did at the end of the second Punic war.)

Originally posted by MarkG
1)Who cares about Latin
2) hmmm cause then the answer would be too obvious?

1)I do.
2)sorry don't know anymore what the other answers were,so what they can easily give multiple Roman leaders everyone should know:
1)Caesar
2)Augustus
3)Nero
4)Octavianus (=3 )
5)Claudius

ADG:hmm here in Belgium history lessons cover quite a bit,it was only in my 6th year(age 17-18) we got WWI and WWII and modern day history.(but we only had it 2 hours a week )

Dainbramaged:

im in first year Latin and i dont know what it means...

this probably means still 5 to go,but you'll have a better chance seeing it in history.(to easy to translate)

Vini vidi vici(written by Caesar to show how little difficulty he had had to conquer some part of Gaul):seeing this one I just think of something.If you really want to kill someone who studied Latin use this quote but pronounce it with the v's(instead of w).

Mister Pleasant:

Matrem futue.Te non ludificor. Mater tua optimus est. Credo mihi - ego scio.

hmm some homemade Latin,let's see what I can make of it.
(it has been a while,so the first two,i don't know there seems to be missing something,could be a translation glitch but probably my memory)the last part:Your mother is the best.Believe me(using an inversion :Waaw)- I know(and you really want to point it's YOU who knows it).

Next one on stage is Decartes(French philosopher):Cogito ergo sum
=I think therefor I am.(maybe this looks familiar)

OTOH, Who declared in 1963: "Ich bin ein Berliner"?

-John F. Kennedy: this came back in the media last weeks when the German prime minister(just a guess) said something like 'I am a NY'er' to show his sympathy for WTC.
(btw could have been A.Einstein:he was German)

I hope no-one's ego got crushed along the way(if so,I'm truly sorry)
Vene,me in Tartare sequi.
Shade

[JellyDonut]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Translation: "I am a jelly doughnut". Seriously.

Are you saying there's something comical about JellyDonuts? BTW, that urban legend ( http://urbanlegends.about.com/librar.../aa021700a.htm ) is where I got my name...

[KrazyHorse]

Awww...I really wanted that to be true.

Plus the 3 months of German that I took led me to believe that the statement minus the "ein" was the only proper way. We didn't get much time to discuss metaphorical phrases.

[JellyDonut]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Awww...I really wanted that to be true.

Plus the 3 months of German that I took led me to believe that the statement minus the "ein" was the only proper way. We didn't get much time to discuss metaphorical phrases.

We Germans put all sorts of weird nuances in our language just to confuse you foreigners!