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In article <rdippold.725970842@cancun>, rdippold@cancun (Ron Dippold) writes:
>I've got about 60 short Latin phrases that I need translated, and my Latin
>sucks.  I spent a few hours with Bartletts and found that about half were
>"classical" phrases, so I have the meanings of those.  That leaves about 30.
>I've headed down to my bookstore, nothing on Latin (doesn't seem to be in big
>demand these days), I've got other stores to try but it'll be about a week.
>So... if anyone is familiar enough that they could whip off some translations
>without too much trouble I'd appreciate it. (BTW, these all come from the
>Asterix books...)
>
>Vae victo vae victis

Hail to the conquered one, hail to the conquered ones.

>Quomodo vales

How(ever) you want

>Visi (need the exact conjugation here)
>Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor
>Quis, quid, ubi, quibus auxiliis, cur, quomodo, quando

Who?  What?  Where?  With what aids?  Why?  How?  When?  (Some reporter?  :-)

>Plaudite cives

(Y'all) applaud the citizens!

>Ita diis placuit

It pleases the gods thus.

>Exegi momentum aere perennius
>Victrix causa diis placuit sed victa catoni
>Victurus te saluto

I who am about to be victorious salute thee.

>Fluctuat nec mergitur
>Sol lucet omnibus

The sun shines on everyone/everything.

>Dignus est intrare
>Ab imo pectore

From the deepest chest => from the depths of my/your/his/her heart

>Bis repetita don't always placent (Latin/english mix)

Things repeated twice non semper please

>Et nunic, reges intelligite... erudimini qui judicatis terram
>Beati pauperes spiritu

Blessed are the poor in spirit

>Mon repos
>Mea Requies
>Maior e longinquo reverentia
>Quousque tandem
>Vadere quo

To go whither

>Gloria victis

Glory to the conquered ones

>Veritas odium parit

Truth gives birth to hate

>Vinum et musica laetificant cor

Wine and music make the heart happy

>De mortuis nil nisi bonum

Concerning the dead (say) nothing except a good thing

>Qui habet aures audiendi audiat

Let him/her who has ears for hearing hear

>Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos

While you will be (=> are), you will number many friends

>Uti, non abuti

To use, not to abuse

>Non licet omnibus adire corinthum

It is not permitted to all to approach/go to Corinth.

>Contraria contrariis curantur
>Quot capita, tot sensus

However many heads, so many opinions

(That's as many as I can get without a dictionary.  I've re-directed this to
sci.classics...)
-- 
Rich Alderson   'I wish life was not so short,' he thought.  'Languages take
                such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
                                                        --J. R. R. Tolkien,
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