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If the laws of physics no longer apply in the future, god help you
A 'literal' translation could be:
si quando leges physicae valere desiverint, dominus te adiuvet.
'If ever the laws of physics will have ceased to apply (to be valid), may God help you.'
However, as ...
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If the laws of physics no longer apply in the future, god help you
I'd go for something like:
Si physicæ leges non amplius operabuntur, auxiliet te Deus
The key points here are the following:
I think physicæ could arguably also be phisicæ artis, since the laws ...
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Reimagining the logical gates in Latin
As far as I know, the names, especially the abbreviated ones you list, are always in English whether or not the surrounding text is in English.
Technical abbreviations like this tend to be universal, ...
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Quisque ipse sé díligit, quod quisque per sé sibi cárus est
Note that there is no subjunctive in the second part, and that quod has a lot of alternative meanings. One relevant meaning of quod that seems to apply here is because:
Everyone loves themselves ...
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Ipsí nihil per sé sine eó facere potuérunt
Unfortunately, both translations might indeed be a bit pleonastic since both ipsi and per se are translated to very similar sets of words in both English and Spanish. However, per se and ipse have ...
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Némó fíliam acerbam cónsulis ipsíus diú díligere potuit
Your translation is correct. Consulis ipsius means exactly what you translated it to, both in Spanish (del mismísimo cónsul) and English (of the consul himself). As for the meaning of the whole ...
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Hí Cicerónem ipsum sécum iúnxérunt, nam eum semper díléxerant
Your translation seems fine to me except:
"these of Cicero" makes no sense and is not found in the Latin -- hi is just "these" (people, men, senators, etc.).
you got the tense of ...
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"I am on imperial business and may not be interfered with..."
A couple of suggestions:
Use fungi instead of agere. (This you did in your revised attempt.)
Use an adjective like in English. Imperiale is better than imperii.
I think the second part works better ...
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Translation of “in” as “and”
The passage comes from Cic. Fam. 9.4, namely from a letter to Varro.
Apparently others have translated as you would expect:
If you have a garden in your library, everything will be complete (...
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