# Latin Phrases - For the Helluvit **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 6, 2002, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-phrases-for-the-helluvit/107604 "2002-05-06T19:41:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-phrases-for-the-helluvit/107604/21 "2002-05-07T03:01:10Z")
Lex non curat de minimis. Caveat emptor. Roma locutus, causa finita est. Vita brevis, ars longa. Quod scripsi, scripsi. Ecce homo. Quod erat demonstrandum. Post hoc, ergo proter hoc. In hoc signo, vinces. Credo quod est absurdum. ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-phrases-for-the-helluvit/107604/22 "2002-05-07T07:59:49Z")
Check out my AIM screenname in my profile. Not that I know Latin. I stole it from that book _Latin for All Occasions_. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowWarrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7993a0/32.png) [@ShadowWarrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowWarrior)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-phrases-for-the-helluvit/107604/23 "2002-05-07T08:13:08Z")
Non Timeo Nessor Don’t Fear the Reaper Sona si Latine loqueris. Honk if you speak Latin. Dico, Dico, Dico! I say, I say, Isay! gee, spot the Discworld fans… ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-phrases-for-the-helluvit/107604/24 "2002-05-07T08:15:07Z")
Res Ipsa Loquitor “The thing speaks for itself” Habeas Corpus “you will produce the body” Lex non curat de minimus “the law is not concerned with trifles” Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum ad infernos “To whomsoever the soil belongs, he owns also to the sky and to the depths” Romanes eunt domus “People called Romans, they go to the house” ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-phrases-for-the-helluvit/107604/25 "2002-05-07T11:18:42Z")
Is ab ille heres ego Fortibus es in ero No sese Thebe trux Vatis enim Pes an dux The above is an old schoolboy joke. Don’t try too hard to translate ti though. It “translates” as: I say Billy; here’s a go, Forty buses in a row. No, says he. They be trucks. What is in them? Peas and ducks ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-phrases-for-the-helluvit/107604/26 "2002-05-07T12:19:53Z")
That’s close enough, **Colibri**. Though I was expecting someone to pop in with “I didn’t know Gloria was sick!” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kerriensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5ac83/32.png) [@Kerriensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kerriensis)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-phrases-for-the-helluvit/107604/27 "2002-05-07T13:36:28Z")
Then there’s the advice given by the Delphic Oracle to a warrior before deciding whether to go to battle… “Ibis, redibis, nunquam per bella peribis…” [You will go, you will return, never in war will you perish…] or was that… “Ibis, redibis nunquam, per bella peribis” ??? [You will go, you will return never, in war will you perish] The moral of the story is to get everything in writing so you can check the oracle’s punctuation… Kerriensis ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-phrases-for-the-helluvit/107604/28 "2002-05-07T13:42:04Z")
> [@](#): > > And just to show how frustrating Latin can be, here’s my next phrase for the helluvit. > Femina clamans dicessit This is why you will virtually never find a nominative present participle in the works of _any_ good Roman writer. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-phrases-for-the-helluvit/107604/29 "2002-05-07T13:43:20Z")
**Varium et mutabile semper femina** _Woman is always a changeable and capricious thing._ It’s good to know some things are of all times. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-phrases-for-the-helluvit/107604/30 "2002-05-07T14:02:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KneadToKnow \* > \*\*_Sic transit gloria mundi._ > Thus passes the glory of the world. > > Okay, somebody out there’s smart-alec enough to say it … \*\* And Tuesday is usually worse. Feles mala! Cur cista non uteris? Stramentum novum in ea posui. Bad kitty! Why don’t you use the cat box? I put new litter in it. ---
**Author:** ![Mirth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Mirth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirth)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-phrases-for-the-helluvit/107604/31 "2002-05-07T14:49:50Z")
Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes Always wanted to get this on a T-shirt for my father-in-law. ( If you can read this you’re overeducated) ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-phrases-for-the-helluvit/107604/32 "2002-05-07T15:14:03Z")
So, when the mods close this thread, will they do it with _Ohe! iam satis est, ohe! libelle_… ? [sub]“Whoa! Enough now, whoa! little book”. From a closing epigram by Martial, don’t y’know.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-phrases-for-the-helluvit/107604/33 "2002-05-07T15:27:48Z")
Bessi, mea vocca, te amat. Bessie, my cow, loves you. Philosophia est ars vitae. Philosophy is the art of life. Nihil me terret, sed Latina. Nothing terrifies me but Latin. ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-phrases-for-the-helluvit/107604/34 "2002-05-07T15:31:42Z")
_Romanes Eunt Domus_ Translation: People called Romanes they go the house??? From [the film of the same name](http://www.montypython.net/brianmm.php#Scene%208) ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-phrases-for-the-helluvit/107604/35 "2002-05-07T15:39:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by grimpixie \* > \*\*From [the film of the same name](http://www.montypython.net/brianmm.php#Scene%208) \*\* Blech link doesn’t work - go to Scene 8 for the whole dialog Gp ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-phrases-for-the-helluvit/107604/36 "2002-05-07T17:27:59Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by astorian \* > \*\* In hoc signo, vinces._\* I know, I know! “Vince had to pawn his signet ring.” ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-phrases-for-the-helluvit/107604/37 "2002-05-07T19:10:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pravnik \* > \*\*Res Ipsa Loquitor > “The thing speaks for itself” > \*\* Of course I do…_sed quid in inferno dicet_? ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-phrases-for-the-helluvit/107604/38 "2002-05-07T19:17:01Z")
Ars gratia artis.\* Macdonaldus senex fundum habuit.\*\* Sit vis vobiscum!\*\*\* [sub]\*Art for art’s sake \*\*Old MacDonald had a farm. \*\*\*May the force be with you![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-phrases-for-the-helluvit/107604/39 "2002-05-07T19:30:09Z")
Sorry, **ResIpsa** , but it’s actually spelled loquitur. ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-phrases-for-the-helluvit/107604/40 "2002-05-07T19:46:55Z")
AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH! Well, fabulous…now my post count feels like a colossal lie. I’ll go cry now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-phrases-for-the-helluvit/107604.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-phrases-for-the-helluvit/107604.md?page=3)