Can you pick the Latin Phrases (Part 2)? by adephagia

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Latin Phrases (Part 2) Quiz

by adephagia

Created Jul 4, 2012 in Language
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	trusting365:	Jul 4th, 2012 at 17:11 GMT		3 points
	I love 'no one dances sober'.

	pixiepop:	Jul 4th, 2012 at 17:37 GMT		4 points
	I spy several Juvenal and Vergil quotes. :)

	untakenhandle:	Jul 5th, 2012 at 23:32 GMT		2 points
	sequerere should be sequere. :) fun quiz, though!

	AdamBishop:	Jul 6th, 2012 at 13:55 GMT		2 points
	Some other typos: "bellum omnium contra omnes", "non est disputandum", "de omnibus dubitandum" "ipsos custodes", "si dicta Latina" seems like it should be "si dicta latine", maybe?

	Terentius_Varro:	Jul 7th, 2012 at 16:01 GMT		1 point
	Besides what AdamBishop already pointed out: "an argument to the crowd" is "an argument to capture the crowd". "Finis coronat opus" doesn't mean "the end justifies the means". "In specialibus generalia quaerimus" means "We seek the general in the specifics". "To seek" would be "Quaerere". The "but" in "anger is but a brief madness" is nowhere to be found in the Latin phrase. "Magnum opus" may quite literally mean "great work", but it is used to describe the greatest work of someone. "Quem deus vult" is singular, so that would be "who the god would". "Esto" is an imperative, so "the welfare of the people should be the highest law".

	adephagia:	Jul 13th, 2012 at 14:38 GMT		2 points
	Thanks for the comments. I’ve corrected ‘mones’, ‘disputandem’, ‘dubitandem’, ‘custodies’, and ‘sequerere’ (all typos), as well as ‘to seek’ and ‘the welfare of the people is…’ (both mistakes). I’m not entirely sure about ‘si dicta Latina’ but I think you’re probably right and have changed it. I’ve already made clear that ‘the ends justify the means’ is not a literal translation of ‘finis coronat opus’, but it is a reasonable (though obviously arguable) inference to draw from that metaphorical expression. 'Anger is but a brief madness’ sounds like a poeticized version of ‘anger is a brief madness’ but they’re not different enough in meaning to argue about so I’ve changed my original version. ‘Quem deus vult’ is widely translated as ‘whom the gods would destroy…’ – so widely that that phrase has entered the English language – so I’ve left that. ‘An argument to the crowd’ is a perfectly reasonable (and common) translation of ‘argumentum ad captandum’, but I’ve added a literal translation in brackets to be clear. The translation of ‘magnum opus’ is fine the way it is.