A little Latin translation!

[Fassa Albrecht]

Let's see who is the first person on Talkbass who can translate the piece of Latin on my signature at the bottom. Nothing too hard to do really!


PS: NO CHEATING!!!! Don't just look the poem up and copy/paste. IT MUST BE YOUR WORK ENTIRELY!!!!

[steve21]

Hahahaha, I'm gonna study that poem next week in AP Latin.

What does he know to go to that place tomorrow something something... mumble mumble.

Yeah, A's in Latin every year... and that's what I have to show for it.

[cdef]

Okay, I had eight years of Latin at school, so I'll play:

"Who knows if the gods above will add a tomorrow to the present tally of days?"

Not a very poetic translation, but it makes sense.

EDIT: Anyone who studied Latin will have read some Horace, but I didn't remember that one. It's been, um, 40 years...

[evan_phi]

i took one semester of university Latin. i enjoyed it immensely... but i got a bad mark

[moogboy]

who can translate this?:

Ars Longa Vita Brevis

anyone who has already answered this thread cant answer to this one.

[Phalex]

I don't know why, but I remember this one: Inter faeces et urinam nascimur.

[gkbass13]

i took 3 years of latin in school...i dont retain languages at all unfortunately.

semper ubi sub ubi ;-)

[buzzbass]

mes' havious de pesta 'es en la cucina ?

[moogboy]

the answer to mine is: Art Is Long, Life Is Short.

[Richard Lindsey]

Originally Posted by moogboy

the answer to mine is: Art Is Long, Life Is Short.

What you have is of course literally correct, but less literally, you could also think of it as something like "Art lasts, life doesn't."

[cdef]

Originally Posted by Richard Lindsey

"Art lasts, life doesn't."

That is much better. Very seldom will a literal translation capture the gist of what's being said.