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Title: Anyone got some 733t Latin ski77z?
Post by: odin on May 16, 2004, 06:06:34 PM

Then how about you translate this for me:

Discite justitiam, et non temnere divos.

:-).

Title: Re: Anyone got some 733t Latin ski77z?
Post by: KennyR on May 16, 2004, 06:17:51 PM

It's from Virgil's  Aeneid: literally, it means "Learn the justice of watchfulness, and don't tempt the gods."

Or to put in contemporary English...don't take justice into your own hands, or it'll come back and bite you on the ass.

Title: Re: Anyone got some 733t Latin ski77z?
Post by: odin on May 16, 2004, 06:21:06 PM

Cheers, but once again I answered my own question with google. Although that translation prog said:

'Learn the justice, and to not scorn the gods.'

Close nuff, cheers anyway. Is it actually a Latin proverb? (It's the final sentence of a story, so it wouldn't surprise me).

-edit-
Oi! Stop editing, answering a question I just edited into my post!

;-)

Title: Re: Anyone got some 733t Latin ski77z?
Post by: KennyR on May 16, 2004, 06:22:42 PM

Wow, I got it from google too. Ain't that a conincidence? ;-)

(I do actually have a latin phrasebook, but it wasn't in it. Bah.)

Title: Re: Anyone got some 733t Latin ski77z?
Post by: bloodline on May 17, 2004, 09:36:42 AM

I got 17 and a half percent in my Latin exam, it was recommended that I choose another subject... so I took extra Maths :-D