# Translate something into Latin, please.

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**Created:** [September 20, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translate-something-into-latin-please/373484 "2006-09-20T22:33:10Z")\
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[QUOTE=Dr. Drake]  
_Pontem comburam cum perveniam_, ¿perhaps? And for the record, I like “via longa”; couldn’t that refer to “open[-ended] road, road without end”?  
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There are no recorded uses of it like that, that I’m aware.

For “I’ll burn that bridge when I come to it”, maybe: “pontem incendam quando ad illum veniam”.

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