Can you name the Beatles' songs from their title translated into Latin?

Latin Title	English Title
In Mea Vita
Avis Nigra
Hic, Illic, et Ubique
Arbutorum Agri Aeternaliter
Verbum
Fer Pondus Id
Vir a Nullo Loco
Via Longa et Volubilis
Circumitus IX
Volo Te (Tam Gravis Ea)

Latin Title	English Title
Sensum Habeo
Tuam Manum Habere Volo
Existens Melius
Dum Cithara Mea Placide Lacrimat
O! Delicia
Omnes Pariter Nunc
Modo Dormio
Polypi Hortus
Ea ex Domo Exit
Finis

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The Beatles in Latin II Quiz

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Created May 22, 2011 in Language
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	BeckyJPM:	Jul 5th, 2011 at 19:17 GMT		4 points
	Brilliant!

	ostroffj:	Jul 5th, 2011 at 19:18 GMT		8 points
	@Pit_trout Personally I was hoping for more songs from the Album Album.

	Jamessir:	Jul 5th, 2011 at 19:21 GMT		7 points
	Obladi Oblada = Obladi Oblada

	rockgolf:	Jul 5th, 2011 at 19:44 GMT		19 points
	You can't spell Platinum records without Latin.

	moviegoer74:	Jul 5th, 2011 at 19:46 GMT		14 points
	This is a fun quiz, but I wonder how much of the very low success reflected in the results is because nobody knows their latin or because there's more than a few obscure songs on here. Obscure by Beatles standards anyway. Replace Carry That Weight, Getting Better, She's Leaving Home, All Together Now and I'm Only Sleeping with Help, Hard Day's Night, Yesterday, Can't Buy me Love and Come Together and I bet the success rate would go up quite a bit. Btw, I'm not saying you SHOULD make those changes. If super-hard is what you're going for, that's fine. But I do think there are a lot fo Sporclers who could deduce the Latin titles if they were familiar with the title in English and won't have heard of a bunch of these songs.

	gellchom:	Jul 5th, 2011 at 19:52 GMT		3 points
	I agree with moviegoer's theory, although I'd only call "Oh! Darling" and "I've Got a Feeling" obscure. Certainly you can't call anything on Sgt. Pepper "obscure" -- isn't that required reading? My quibble: I think you should accept "Revolution # [or number] nine." Great idea for a quiz, and lots of fun. Thanks.

	Handle1:	Jul 5th, 2011 at 19:54 GMT		6 points
	I wasn't necessarily trying to make a super-hard quiz, but a lot of the less-obscure songs were either in the original game or impossible/very difficult to translate into Latin (e.g. "Eleanor Rigby"). I hope you enjoy the quiz anyway!

	Kunstkammer:	Jul 5th, 2011 at 20:00 GMT		3 points
	Ego sum Odobenus rosmarus?

	leppyfresh:	Jul 5th, 2011 at 20:15 GMT		3 points
	Magna...hmmmm...how do you say quiz in Latin? Oh well, great quiz!

	mcsnee:	Jul 5th, 2011 at 20:31 GMT		18 points
	"Fer Pondus Id" isn't correct for "Carry That Weight"—the "that" is functioning as an adjective, and "id" is a pronoun. I think you want "Fer pondus illud" instead.

	Stran:	Jul 5th, 2011 at 21:22 GMT		4 points
	I wonder what Yellow Submarine is in Latin? :-)

	david6k:	Jul 5th, 2011 at 21:41 GMT		2 points
	Love it. Immediately went and did the first quiz - glad you added more time for this one, I wanted more time to ponder a few there. Some suggestions for part III: Piggies, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, Eight Days A Week, Rain, Fool on the Hill, All You Need Is Love, When I'm Sixty-Four (spell it out, not LXIV)

	dancastro:	Jul 5th, 2011 at 23:56 GMT		3 points
	I had always thought that strawberry is fraga in Latin (at least it was the word that gave origin to the Romance words, Fr. fraise, It. fragola, Sp. fresa). However, I just looked it up and seemingly there is also a "strawberry tree" whose botanical genus is Arbutus (the translation used for the quiz). How can we know if the "strawberry fields" in the song refer to the usual strawberries (those eaten as dessert) or to the strawberry trees? (which I didn't know to exist, btw).

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	StreetMeat:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 01:12 GMT		2 points
	noli urinare contra ventum

	magister:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 01:27 GMT		7 points
	Great quiz again. This always makes me think of the old lists in Pompeiana. A few comments: 1) It's extremely difficult, and some would say pointless, but I would prefer to see Turdus instead of Avis nigra. The song is about a blackbird, not a black bird, so the proper genus should be used. (Also, the freshmen boys in my class would love it.) 2) "Habere" for hold and not "tenere?" "Habere" tends to mean to hold or have, i.e. to possess. Is that some sort of zombie love song? 3) Still incredibly nitpicky: Circumitus means a revolution as a time around, like the revolution of a wheel. Did Revolution #9 have the same connotation as Revolution #1, i.e. an overthrowing of government? Therefore wouldn't it be that ever (Roman) Republican phrase Res Novae?

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	charolastra:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 02:33 GMT		6 points
	Now I want to know how you'd say "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey" in Latin...

	nppyinzer:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 02:41 GMT		4 points
	Prodigiosus! Quinque sphaera.

	dancastro:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 02:45 GMT		2 points
	@Stran (for Yellow Submarine): the "yellow" part is easy; it's flavus -a -um. As for the submarine: there is an actual need to translate modern words into Latin (e.g. for Papal encyclicals), so someone wrote a "Lexicon eorum vocabulorum quae difficilius latine redduntur" (dictionary of those words that are more difficult to translate into Latin), where most likely "submarine" appears. But it's a printed book, not available online.

	magister:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 02:50 GMT		2 points
	@Charolastra: Omnes, nisi ego et simia mea, aliquid, quod celare debent, habent. Although I might use ament or velint instead of debent.

	magister:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 03:25 GMT		2 points
	@dancastro: While I do not own the "Lexicon eorum vocabulorum quae difficilius latine redduntur," a quick look into Romance languages would lead me to deem submarine as submarinum, submarini. That may be a cop out, however.

	courtneyyy:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 04:27 GMT		1 point
	breaking out the roman numerals for "revolution 9" was a great touch. my geek side heartily approves. :D @magister, i kinda had the same thought as far as using proper genus names, but it occurred to me in that it would be great for "blue jay way" on the next installment. :)

	blairio:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 08:26 GMT		-2 points
	submarines and guitars didn't exist 2,000 years ago so how can they have latin words?

	AdamBishop:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 08:50 GMT		2 points
	"To get better" has its own verb in Latin, so "Meliorans" would also work.

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	mjenks:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 13:41 GMT		1 point
	Excelsior!

	Mimbleton:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 14:14 GMT		1 point
	Fun quiz - turns out I don't know as much latin or Beatles as I thought I did.

	Rdude:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 17:27 GMT		6 points
	@Rob42, I think it's appropriate that you have to answer for a specific clue here; otherwise it just turns into "how many Beatles songs can you name in the alloted time" game

	Jenbebe:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 18:32 GMT		4 points
	I loved this quiz. I love any quiz that makes me stretch my mind. For example, I only got "Nowhere Man" because of the "nullo." And then I thought, "hmm, 'vir' must be the root of 'virile,' which speaks of manhood, which... hey! Man, nothing, 'Nowhere Man!'" There's such a wonderful sense of satisfaction that comes from figuring these out. Oh, and "O! Darling" is obscure? It's one of my favorite Beatles songs. I knew it as soon as I saw the "O."

	ezois:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 19:53 GMT		3 points
	No, submarines and guitars didn't exist but zithers did and submarine has Latin roots.

	tulliuscicero:	Jul 7th, 2011 at 00:29 GMT		1 point
	Even better than the original!

	doogie:	Jul 7th, 2011 at 08:18 GMT		2 points
	How do you say "Polythene" in Latin?

	Quizzers:	Jul 7th, 2011 at 12:17 GMT		2 points
	I enjoyed this! Great idea for a quiz. However, I hadn't heard of about 8 of these titles and my Latin is too rusty to work them out! I was surprised 'Yesterday' wasn't there.

	ktappe:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 01:55 GMT		1 point
	This was fun. Have to nitpick "polypi" though; it is of Greek origin. Perhaps the Romans adopted it though.

	abanazerb:	Jul 9th, 2011 at 13:42 GMT		1 point
	Nice work.