Latin Sayings

[panta dokimazete]

OK, all you Latin scholars: translate this:

Conjugi Dilectissimae
Laborum Studiorum Gaudiorum
Consorti

It's on the dedication page of Oliver Cromwell by John Buchan (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934) and does not come with a translation.

Buchan (1875-1940), by the way, wrote, among very many other things, the novel The Thirty Nine Steps (1915), which was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock.

I am no Latin scholar, but I think it means:

To my beloved wife - in labor, in study, in joy - my partner

 

[Irishcat922]

Simil justus et peccator
Sinner and jistified.
Luther
Forgive the Spelling

Post tennebras Lux
After darkness light.
Calvin

 

[kvanlaan]

You guys are way too high-brow for me...

Si minor plus est ergo nihil sunt omnia.
- If less is more, then nothing is everything.

Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit.
- To boldly go where no man has gone before.

Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est.
- Yes, that is a very large amount of corn.

Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?
- Ever noticed how wherever you stand, the smoke goes right into your face?

Braccae illae virides cum subucula rosea et tunica Caledonia-quam elenganter concinnatur!
- Those green pants go so well with that pink shirt and the plaid jacket!

Braccae tuae aperiuntur.
- Your fly is open.

Canis meus id comedit.
- My dog ate it.

Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
- I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.

Clamo, clamatis, omnes clamamus pro glace lactis.
- I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.

Cogito sumere potum alterum.
- I think I’ll have another drink.

Credo Elvem etiam vivere.
- I believe Elvis lives.

Da quaeso arabicam!
- Coffee, please.

Fac ut gaudeam.
- Make my day.

Furnulum pani nolo.
- I don't want a toaster.

Gramen artificiosum odi.
- I hate Astroturf.

Hoc nomen meum verum non est.
- This isn’t my real name.

Id est mihi, id non est tibi!
- It is mine, not yours!

Illiud Latine dici non potest.
- You can't say that in Latin.

Imus ad magum Ozi videndum, magum Ozi mirum mirissimum.
- We are going to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz.

Insula Gilliganis.
- Gilligan's Island.

Lagunculae leydianae non accedunt.
- Batteries not included.

Lege atque lacrima.
- Read 'em and weep.

Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est.
- The designated hitter rule has got to go.

Magnus frater spectat te...
- Big Brother is watching you...

Mei capilli sunt flagrantes.
- My hair is on fire.

Mellita, domi adsum.
- Honey, I'm home.

Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum!
- Don't you dare erase my hard disk!

Noli me vocare, ego te vocabo.
- Don't call me, I'll call you.

Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat.
- It's not the heat, it's the humidity.

Postatem obscuri lateris nescitis.
- You do not know the power of the dark side.

Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
- How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Quod, me vexari?
- What, me worry?

Radix lecti.
- Couch potato.

Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!
- Stand aside plebians! I am on imperial business.

Revera linguam latinam vix cognovi.
- I don’t really know all that much Latin.

Re vera, potas bene.
- Say, you sure are drinking a lot.

Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes.
- If you can read this you're over-educated.

Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus Latinus alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes!
- If you can read this sign, you can get a good job in the fast-paced, high-paying world of Latin!

Sit vis nobiscum.
- May the force be with you.

Sola lingua bona est lingua mortua.
- The only good language is a dead language.

Solum potestis prohibere ignes silvarum.
- Only you are can prevent forest fires.

Stultus est sicut stultus facit.
- Stupid is as stupid does.

Sum, ergo edo.
- I am, therefore I eat.

Suntne vacci laeti?
- Are your cows happy?

Tam exanimis quam tunica nehru fio.
- I am as dead as the nehru jacket.

Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.
- I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear.

Tua toga suspina est.
- Your toga is backwards.

Vescere bracis meis.
- Eat my shorts.

Veni, vidi, volo in domum redire.
- I came, I saw, I want to go home.

There you go.

And finally:

Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit.
- Wise man does not urinate against the wind.