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For questions about translating English words or phrases into Latin. Bulk translation requests are off-topic.
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Climate Change--Revised
Firstly, thanks to brianpck, Joonas, cnread & Quidam for their intervention and many helpful suggestions on the restructuring of this Q.
Climate change (CC)/ Global Warming (GW)--phrases that have en …
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When God Softens The Heart
Q: How do you say "open your mind"in latin? (it's for a tattoo) was never resolved. A literal translation of "open your mind" would not work; therefore, some lateral thinking. From adjective, "mollis" …
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What is "A man only does something that sits easily with his conscience." translated into La...
The infamous and long-discredited legal defence: "I was only obeying orders.", has become almost the traditional excuse for cowardice & brutality.
Of the legal (There is a higher moral duty to disobey …
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From "Coup de Grace" to "Coup d' Etat"
The French expression, "coup d'etat" = "a blow of state", the (usually violent) overthrow of a government and its replacement by an illegal alternative. In Latin there are a number of terms e.g. "sedi …
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A Conditional Sentence in Direct and Indirect Speech
In the film "Spartacus" (1960) Marcus Publius Glabrus, having just lost six cohorts of the garrison of Rome, in an ill-starred attempt to crush the slave-uprising in its incipient stages, is summoned …
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Fearing the Evolution of Coronavirus
As governments dread the evolution of a Coronavirus-variant that will not be susceptible to the new wave of vaccines, how would this fear be expressed in Latin?
The Romans, with no concept of vaccinat …
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The Phoenix is Happy
In Pompeii there is a wall-inscription reading, "Phoenix felix et tu"; literally, "The phoenix is happy and you.". It was originally found on the wall of a food establishment known as the Thermopolium …
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Passive versus active voice for "increasing" verb
In North & Hillard Ex. 193; Q1: the following sentence is to be translated into Latin: "While the consul was absent the danger was increasing."
The answer given: "dum consul aberat periculum augebatu …
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A Question of Taste
On one of her many visits to Pompeii, TV-presenter, Dame Mary Beard met an Italian chef who was making fish-sauce, garum, according to the original Roman recipe. Upon tasting this culinary delight Dam …
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Translation Problems in Cicero's "de Finibus"
In Cic. de Fin. 5.83:
"in virtute enim sola et in ipso honesto cum sit bonum positum, cumque nec virtus, ut placet illiis, nec honestum crescat, idque bonum solum sit, quo qui potiatur, necesse est b …
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A Translation Problem from Quintillian's Lesser Declamations
In Q: When Does A Deponent Verb Return to its Passive Roots?, the essay linked by Kingshorsey, in his answer, "Syntax of Nitor", by Herbert Nutting (1930) explored (Section II) the passive use of depo …
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"It wasn't worth it, was it?"
In the final episode (No. 12) of TV-series, "I Claudius" (BBC, 1976), an ailing Claudius visits the Senate for the last time. There, having spoken a few sentences Claudius appears to enter a catatonic …
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How Would Post-Traumatic Stress be Expressed in (Contemporary) Latin?
While researching the possibility of the occurrence of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), in the Roman army, I found this article from Historia magazine: "Did Roman Soldiers Suffer PTSD?" by Antho …
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A Problem with A Relative Clause
In the film, "Dr. Zhivago" (1965), narrator, general Yevgraf Zhivago said:
"Finally, they (the Russian soldiers) did what all the armies dreamed of doing."
(They mutinied and began the long walk hom …
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An Indirect Question with a Subordinate Clause
Last week, in CHAT, there was a discussion on direct speech/ indirect speech/ subordinate clauses. With this in mind here's a quote from Sky-News TV-journalist, Beth Rigby, who on the 18th. of January …
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