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The historical sentence is Vae Victis. It means "Woe to the vanquished" and has been pronounced in 390 BC by a Gaul warlord who besieged and defeated Rome.

"Vae victus" is the same in singular. Might not be historical, but grammatically correct.

"Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant !"
"Hail Caesar, those who'll die salute you" - scream of gladiators before fighting. "Caesar" is one of the title of Roman emperor and one part of the surname of the first of them.

"Requiescat in Pace"
"Rest in peace"

I have big picture in my head ignorantia iuris nocet.
And my History teacher speaking before writing bad note dura lex, sed lex.
And my cousin's lagena vinorum pulchra et formosa est.
My own tubulus tuum intra occulum and salve, colli!

And tomorrow I will see one building from bus window. There's Latin sentece, but I didn't see it well last week. But it's about law again.

I also remember from one book spiritus flat ubi vult.
If spiritus, there must be spiritus sanctus

Mundos adnihilo.

Ok, I have seen. It is iustitias vestras iudicab

Homo Atexta = = Peter Parker

Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?

This theme tune was actually sung in Latin.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LqJD5wm2q4[/youtube]

Wow! I have never seen someone speaking Latin fluently in a setting of our modern world. That is something quite different than the Latin I hear in my (Catholic) Church!

How do you say, "that is just WAY too cool" in Latin?

CANIS IATRANS.

Estuans interius
ira vehementi
Estuans interius
ira vehementi
Sephiroth
Sephiroth

Sors immanis
Et inanis
Sors immanis
Et inanis


Veni, veni, venias,
Ne me mori facias
Veni, veni, venias,
Ne me mori facias

Veni, veni, venias, Gloriosa
Ne me mori facias Generosa
Veni, veni, venias, Gloriosa
Ne me mori facias Generosa

Sephiroth
Sephiroth
Sephiroth

Latin is an inmortal language.

Rosetta Stone 2 offered a basic Latin lesson if you want to learn how to speak and read it. Though it would be a primitive level. I don't know if Rosetta Stone 3 still has it.

I'm glad that guy in the video uses good pronunciation. Has anyone heard of Father Reginald Foster? He works in the Vatican City, and he has many conversational Latin classes.

I'd say all around Latin is pretty easy, especially if you are used to grammatical cases. The most difficult parts of Latin I'd say are learning the four parts of verbs, id est, the first person singular present active indicative, the active infinitive, the 1ps. perfect active indicative, and the passive perfect participle. The 3rd and 4th parts of many verbs are formed irregularly from the infinitive, but many follow a pattern. So really it just has to do with remembering words. Also, many of the third declension nouns have irregular conjugations, many of which have to be learned, but they all follow a pattern, like they add "-in-", like "nōmen, nōminis", or a medial <r> changes to <s>. You get the idea. Only a couple nouns are actually irregular in their declensions though, mainly "domus", "bōs", "deus", and "Iuppiter".

Hope that helped.

It's easy as long as you don't have to face periphrastic conjugations active and passive, ablative absolute and similar inventions of the devil himself.

Or until you have to translate Ovid, Cicero or even De Bello Gallico.

Not to mention scansion of the poetic meters.

Well active and passive are still easy to learn, wait for deponent and defective verbs


Yeah, Ovid is quite hard, although Cicero and Caesar are known to be "easy" authors, compared to Tacitus (who, unlike Cicero, likes to break sentence structure, to surprise the reader).


It's very hard at the beggining, but it gets easier and easier, and at the end it appears to be the light part of latin, compared to theme (translation from your language to latin /omg).