# 'Sit vis nobiscum' - 'may the force be with you' in Latin? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 3, 2010, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sit-vis-nobiscum-may-the-force-be-with-you-in-latin/559308 "2010-11-03T06:05:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2010, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sit-vis-nobiscum-may-the-force-be-with-you-in-latin/559308/41 "2010-11-13T21:20:08Z")
Aha! The awareness is already kicking in. The Simpsons’ latest Treehouse of Horror contains some actual Latin that they bothered to get . They show the instructions for a game called Path of Satan, which only shows up for a few frames. Here’s what I can make out in freeze-frame: **Praescripta** (Instructions) **Via Satanas** (Way Satan) **De II ad IV ludores** (concerning 2 to 4 players) **Haec arca contenet:** (These things the box contains:) **(I) alveolus** (1 game board) **(IV) calces** (4 game pieces) **Horror inscrutabilis**! (Inscrutable horror!) **Deponere alveolum:** (To arrange the board:) **Alveolus suum deponet.** (The board arranges itself.) **[fragment, possibly ‘ludere’]** (How to play?) \*\*Ludor addenscens [?] prius ages. Vel ludor [unreadable] \*\*(Player [consider?] before you act. Or player…) **Ludor Primus Pop-O-Matic alveoli apprim[Milhouse’s thumb]** (The first player presses the Pop-O-Matic of the board.) **[Milhouse’s arm]dare, o stulte! Nam animum perdas**. (something, you fool! For you imperil your soul.) **[blocked] aeterno tuus sunt [possibly ‘sit’]!** (May your (something) eternally be…) There are some things I would correct, but they did hand the job over to somebody who knew something about Latin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sit-vis-nobiscum-may-the-force-be-with-you-in-latin/559308.md?page=2)