How can I translate "for those I love I will sacrifice" to Latin? I got several different answers from different sources:
- prō meīs nihil nōn patiar
- prō dīlēctīs nihil nōn patiar
- Iillis quos amo deserviam
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Here are what those sentences literally mean:
prō meīs nihil nōn patiar
"For the sake of mine and my own, there's nothing I won't endure."
prō dīlēctīs nihil nōn patiar
"For the sake of the beloved ones [i.e. the ones I love], there's nothing I won't endure"
Iillis quos amo deserviam
"I will be utterly devoted to the people whom I love."
Out of the three, I like the first one best. It's elegantly-put and has a very nice rhythm to it; I certainly couldn't do better than that myself.
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1I think the verb here is not servare but servire, "to serve" or "to be slave". The one to be served is often put in dative. A more devoted variant of the verb is deservire. Therefore the third suggestion is closer to "I will serve with devotion the ones I love" and is grammatical apart from the extraneous i in the first word.– Joonas Ilmavirta ♦Jun 7, 2019 at 18:54
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@JoonasIlmavirta Good call—do you want to write that in as an answer? Otherwise I'll edit mine.– Draconis ♦Jun 7, 2019 at 20:26
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Go ahead and put it in! If I come up with a nice idea for the phrasing of the whole sentence I might write a new answer, but that shouldn't keep you from improving yours.– Joonas Ilmavirta ♦Jun 7, 2019 at 20:47