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Sine die.

Whenever.....

Nemo me impune lacessit - Scots will know what I mean!

23% for o level.
But do like"Carpe Diem"

nil desperandum

Nil illegtimus carborundum

Tempus fugit, especially when you're on Gransnet

For those of us who don't know much Latin, could you translate, please? Ta!

Compos mentis - still got all my marbles

Don't let the bastards grind you down
Don't despair
Time flies
Seize the day

But not in that order....

Amabint

Caeser adsum iam forte.Say it quickly!

Nos morituri te salutamus, Caesar.

We who are about to die salute you, Caesar. (gladiators entering the arena)

Dum spiro spero - while there's life there's hope. (loosely translated)

And,cof course, Cogito ergo sum - I think therefore I am (Descartes)

One I like:

Ubi deserta (or solitudinem) faciunt pacem appellant. They create deserts and call it peace. Celtic chief Calgacus on the Romans' attempted conquest of Caledonia. (in Tacitus' history)

Amo GN!

Omnia vincit amor. Love conquers all.

Non sine pulvere palma (not without dust the prize) Ref charioteers

Mea culpa (I did it!)

Gracesmum and Aka you have to explain! Otherwise where's the lesson?

A common prayer in my Catholic childhood: Mea maxima culpa - through my most grievous fault.
I got a double dose of Latin, as a school subject and as a Catholic, before the change to the mass being conducted in the vernacular.

I bet Calgacus didn't say it in Latin though...

Oh those declensions... I reckon Romans must have spent so much time bitching about other people's grammar...

Where I went to school, the motto was "Virtute et Labore". At a reunion lunch nearly sixty years later I found that nobody on my table really knew for sure what it meant! I figured out that the -te ending stuck onto 'virtu' indicates the ablative (an odd-sounding word in itself, which means "to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature" but that has damn-all to do with Latin grammar). The ablative case in Latin implies 'by', 'with' or 'from' - in this case it makes our old motto mean 'By valour and exertion' - although you could have fooled me...

Well, I have to concede one thing to Gove - rote learning certainly stays with you. I have absolutely no use for Latin grammar but I can still conjugate a verb and recite a list of prepositions that take the ablative absolute ( a, absque, coram, de, palam, clam, cum ex and e, sinus , tenus , pro and prae...) What a total waste of space in my brain!

Sorry! You can have the Scottish translation - Wha daur meddle wi' me - or the English - No-one assails me with impunity.

Well, I have to concede one thing to Gove - rote learning certainly stays with you. I have absolutely no use for Latin grammar but I can still conjugate a verb and recite a list of prepositions that take the ablative case ( a, absque, coram, de, palam, clam, cum ex and e, sinus , tenus , pro and prae...) What a total waste of space in my brain!

I did "A" Level Latin and Greek, and I love the disciples of Latin. I can now only read Greek and translate very simple words, like "and"!

"Carpe diem" - seize the day

A little apt quotation for today:

"Diffugere nives, redeunt iam gramina campis
Arboribusque "

"the snows have melted (and) grass has returned to the fields, (and) leaves to the trees."

My classics teacher entered some of us for a Latin and Greek speaking competition against many of the top schools in the West of Scotland - and we invariably won the prizes. I spouted chunks of Demosthenes, Thucidides and Homer and all I can remember is 'The whole earth is the tomb of famous men.' Then I did Latin and Greek in first year at University - Scottish students did a spread of subjects in first year. Modern languages would have been more useful - with hindsight!