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I agree that the construction is a little irregular at first, especially since the English translation favors the future: "Remember that you will die." We are clearly dealing with the first sense of t …

I would use me poenitet (Lewis & Short) for this kind of construction. In the specific example you cited, I would say: Me poenitet te certiorem facere de morte magistri pristini nostri.

In questions of spoken Latin, Plautus is my go-to. One good term for this, frequent in Plautus, is euge, from the Greek εὖγε. A corpus search reveals quite a few examples, often with native Latin repe …

Appellatio and suppositio are technical terms in medieval logic. The subject is quite complicated, but here's an oversimplified overview based on an important work in the subject: William of Sherwood' …

After reading the quoted passage in context (no, I did not read the whole letter), I think you are missing a key sentence that introduces this whole "videbis" trope: It occurs towards the end of the p …

Although this is not entirely idiomatic, a word that I find evocative and powerful is: obnitor, obniti(er), obnixus (L&S) It has military connotations of "standing firm": stant obnixa omnia contra (V …

Given that this is a blog, I would take some of the excellent ideas in the above answers and use the preposition de. The most obvious suggestion: De Vita Mea If you are trying to put emphasis …

It's often difficult to match idioms exactly between languages, but in at least one case you mention Latin has an almost exact equivalent: Ubi terrarum...? non edepol nunc ubi terrarum sim scio (P …

I would translate this with a common Plautine injunction: Age ut lubet! or simply: Ut lubet! / Ut libet! Examples Here are some examples in context: Immo age, út lubet, bíbe, es, dis …

The "duo parietes" in another answer seems to have a meaning more like "have your cake and eat it too," i.e. to pursue two conflicting goals at the same time. Cicero also describes this same phenomeno …

Cicero has a fun, "pile-on" quote in Pro Fonteio 32: potestis igitur ignotos notis, iniquos aequis, alienigenas domesticis, cupidos moderatis, mercennarios gratuitis, impios religiosis, inimici …

A very common idiom that always means "in my opinion" is: meā quidem sententiā. Here are 21 examples, among which: et qui fugitivis servis indunt compedes, nimis stulte faciunt mea quidem sententia. …

Surely you can go no further back than the New Testament. After learning the news that she is to be the mother of Jesus, Mary goes to minister to her cousin Elizabeth, who is expecting John the Baptis …

ceterus, -a, -um is an adjective meaning "other." In this case, it is used substantively and means "other things" or "all else." par, -is is an adjective meaning "equal." Both words are in the abla …

An excellent medieval Latin word, which captures the sense of "wishful thinking" almost exactly, is velleitas, from which we get the (somewhat uncommon) English word "velleity." Thomas Aquinas uses th …