# Help needed - Latin translation **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 5, 2001, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-latin-translation/48489 "2001-01-05T00:13:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MrWhy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@MrWhy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrWhy)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-latin-translation/48489/1 "2001-01-05T00:13:02Z")
As a bit of a joke here at work we are designing a coat of arms and we want to have a Latin phrase thereon. The phrase we were thinking of is “I would rather be called a liar, than be proved wrong” or perhaps “Better to be called a liar, than to be proved wrong”. (Whichever works better I guess.) Does anybody know enough Latin to translate this for us? If another variant works better after translation, that would be fine too. ---
**Author:** ![vtel57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a8b319/32.png) [@vtel57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vtel57)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-latin-translation/48489/2 "2001-01-05T08:34:41Z")
“Deceptio Praecedo Confiteor Confessus” –Deception Before Admission Has a ring to it, I guess… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-latin-translation/48489/3 "2001-01-05T15:08:20Z")
In college, excelled in version, hated theme, reason being that with theme, you **had** to know grammar rules whereas with version, you could always _guess_ the meaning of the Latin text:). That, plus the fact that my Latin is about 40 years old, leads me to the conclusion that I can be of no assistance whatsoever to you. Come up with a Latin motto next time around: I’ll see what I can do:D.