# Latin translation request: "Today Caesar was assassinated"

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 15, 2013, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-request-today-caesar-was-assassinated/653045 "2013-03-15T21:24:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
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See subject. On- line translators differ, perhaps “assassinated” is “understood” as “murder.”

Extra credit for translation into Latin of: “The new Pope has decreed that those receiving Communion must tango down the nave towards the priest.”

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**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-request-today-caesar-was-assassinated/653045/2 "2013-03-15T22:08:21Z")

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Hodie Caesar interfectus erat.

Papa novus jussit illos acceptandi communionem tangendi sunt sub absida ad sacerdotem.

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**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-request-today-caesar-was-assassinated/653045/3 "2013-03-15T22:32:00Z")

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> [@moriah](#):
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> Hodie Caesar interfectus erat.
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> Papa novus jussit illos acceptandi communionem tangendi sunt sub absida ad sacerdotem.

In another thread I recently made a joke about “Noli me tangere” meaning “Don’t tango with me.” However, since this is a serious thread so far, doesn’t “tangendi” mean “touching”, and not “tangoing”?

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**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latin-translation-request-today-caesar-was-assassinated/653045/4 "2013-03-15T22:36:34Z")

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> [@Giles](#):
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> In another thread I recently made a joke about “Noli me tangere” meaning “Don’t tango with me.” However, since this is a serious thread so far, doesn’t “tangendi” mean “touching”, and not “tangoing”?

True, but there is no Latin word for tango, and so, you have a single word doing double duty.