# Help me have fun fun fun with Latin !!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-have-fun-fun-fun-with-latin/449311
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 14, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-have-fun-fun-fun-with-latin/449311 "2008-05-14T18:38:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-have-fun-fun-fun-with-latin/449311/1 "2008-05-14T18:38:29Z")
We contributed enough mula to help build a park in our fair community.
Now, We ( I) get to have the pleasure of name plate or brick of two lines with 24 spaces ( punctuation/space or numbers included) to go down in history!!
Since I would like one line dedicated to my children (16 spaces total), this means I have twenty four spaces (or 32 with the leftovers,) to capture obscure glory!!!111!!!
\*\*Scientia est potentia \*\* ( Knowlege is power)
\*\*Sit vis vobiscum \*\* - May the Force be with you. (Star Wars)
More translations [here](http://www.yuni.com/library/latin.html)
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### Author:  [@Skylark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skylark)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-have-fun-fun-fun-with-latin/449311/2 "2008-05-15T00:26:16Z")
Latin, eh? How many bricks (and how much bread) would it take to put down the [Latin translation](http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/989557/posts) of _Green Eggs and Ham_?
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### Author:  [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-have-fun-fun-fun-with-latin/449311/3 "2008-05-15T01:02:38Z")
On that page, i’ve always loved every one they’ve done with catapaults.
Cave ne ante ullas catapultas ambules - If I were you, I wouldn’t walk in front of any catapults
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam - I have a catapult. Give me all your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head
Also this:
Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem - In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags
Comes in handy sometimes.
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### Author:  [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-have-fun-fun-fun-with-latin/449311/4 "2008-05-15T02:20:09Z")
I’ve always liked this one: Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. ~ Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you.----Ovid.
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### Author:  [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2008, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-have-fun-fun-fun-with-latin/449311/5 "2008-05-15T11:24:20Z")
Sola bona lingua est mortua lingua.
The only good language is a dead language.
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-have-fun-fun-fun-with-latin/449311/6 "2008-05-22T17:56:55Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest]
111!!!
\*\*Scientia est potentia \*\* ( Knowlege is power)
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Update: we went with my suggestion, as it fit nicely.
Thanks for the suggestions.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2008, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-have-fun-fun-fun-with-latin/449311/7 "2008-05-22T18:06:47Z")
**Via inveniemus aut faciemus** – We find the Way or we Make it
**Per Ardua ad Astra** – Through adversity to the stars
**Quis Cognovit, sed quis curam habet** – Who knows? But Who Cares?
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### Author:  [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-have-fun-fun-fun-with-latin/449311/8 "2008-05-22T20:15:17Z")
Semper ubi sub ubi.
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-have-fun-fun-fun-with-latin/449311/9 "2008-05-22T21:08:09Z")
Carpe Jugulum
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-have-fun-fun-fun-with-latin/449311/10 "2008-05-22T21:33:01Z")
Veni, vidi, vici!
Carpe diem.
Are you limited to Latin? How about Classical Greek? ΓΛΩΘΕ ΣΕΑΥΤΟΛ - Know yourself.
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### Author:  [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-have-fun-fun-fun-with-latin/449311/11 "2008-05-22T21:53:50Z")
[QUOTE=Quartz]
Veni, vidi, vici!
Carpe diem.
Are you limited to Latin? How about Classical Greek? ΓΛΩΘΕ ΣΕΑΥΤΟΛ - Know yourself.
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Or the corollary that I saw some where but don’t remember; Vidi, vici, veni.
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### Author:  [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-have-fun-fun-fun-with-latin/449311/12 "2008-05-22T22:50:37Z")
[QUOTE=Jragon]
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam - I have a catapult. Give me all your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.
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I have found my epitaph.