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Title: Need help with Latin
Post by: Hazcat on September 16, 2009, 04:48:57 PM
HazJr needs some help and my one year of Latin (40 years ago) is no help.

Here is the sentence.

Famaliae Siciliam et famam Siciliae amant, sed fortunam duram non amant.

The literal translation of which is:

families Sicily and fame Sicily love/like, but fortune hard not love/like.

only the half before the comma is giving us trouble, what we se is:

[compound subject] [verb]

with nothing for the verb to act on.
Title: Re: Need help with Latin
Post by: Pathfinder on September 16, 2009, 04:52:21 PM
HazJr needs some help and my one year of Latin (40 years ago) is no help.

Omnia Gallia in tres partes divisa est.

Call me
Title: Re: Need help with Latin
Post by: tombogan03884 on September 16, 2009, 05:02:20 PM
Omnia Gallia in tres partes divisa est.

Call me

  "All Latin has 3 parts" ?

I never took Latin   ;D  I'm just trying to figure it out.
Title: Re: Need help with Latin
Post by: Pathfinder on September 16, 2009, 05:38:23 PM
 "All Latin has 3 parts" ?

I never took Latin   ;D  I'm just trying to figure it out.

-1 on your history, Tom.

"All Gaul is divided into three parts" - the first sentence (in Latin) of Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic Wars.

Haz - tell Jr. one of the online translators says that "fanam" is "talk", not fame - it's a verb, not a noun.
Title: Re: Need help with Latin
Post by: tombogan03884 on September 16, 2009, 08:27:50 PM
 What can I say, I read it in English   ;D
Gallia had me puzzled but since the TOPIC was Latin I made an ASSuMEption.   ;D
Title: Re: Need help with Latin
Post by: TAB on September 17, 2009, 12:57:53 AM
Sorry, I only speak english and bad english.
Title: Re: Need help with Latin
Post by: PegLeg45 on September 18, 2009, 04:34:12 PM
En Vino Veritas.....   ;D


And, oh yeah, almost forgot........ Diligentia Vis Celeritas

Title: Re: Need help with Latin
Post by: ellis4538 on September 18, 2009, 08:18:13 PM
Sorry, Latin is Greek to me!

Richard
Title: Re: Need help with Latin
Post by: 1911 Junkie on September 18, 2009, 09:53:20 PM
Etlay histay hreadtay ieday.   :-*