Wordie: Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur.: Comments

Comment by bilby, 2 months ago

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:20:59 +0000

Comment by sionnach, 2 months ago

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:49:19 +0000

Gaberbocchus
Hassard H. Dodgson

Hora aderat briligi. Nunc et Slythia Tova
Plurima gyrabant gymbolitare vabo;
Et Borogovorum mimzebant undique formae,
Momiferique omnes exgrabure Rathi.

"Cave, Gaberbocchum moneo tibi, nate cavendum
(Unguibus ille rapit. Dentibus ille necat.)
Et fuge Jubbubum, quo non infestior ales,
Et Bandersnatcham, quae fremit usque, cave."

Ille autem gladium vorpalem cepit, et hostem
Manxonium long sedulitate petit;
Tum sub tumtummi requiescens arboris umbr
Stabat tranquillus, multa animo meditans.

Dum requiescebat meditans uffishia, monstrum
Praesens ecce! oculis cui fera flamma micat,
Ipse Gaberbocchus dumeta per horrida sifflans
Ibat, et horrendum burbuliabat iens!

Ter, quater, atque iterum cito vorpalissimus ensis
Snicsnaccans penitus viscera dissecuit.
Exanimum corpus linquens caput abstulit heros
Quocum galumphat multa, domumque redit.

"Tune Gaberbocchum potuisti, nate, necare?
Bemiscens puer! ad brachia nostra veni.
Oh! frabiusce dies! iterumque caloque calque
Laetus eo" ut chortlet chortla superba senex.

Hora aderat briligi. Nunc et Slythia Tova
Plurima gyrabant gymbolitare vabo;
Et Borogovorum mimzebant undique formae,
Momiferique omnes exgrabure Rathi.

As you might have already guessed from the name, the translator was indeed related to the original author of the poem. Hassard H. Dodgson was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's uncle.

Comment by chained_bear, 5 months ago

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:38:46 +0000

Might I make a request for "Set phasers on stun"?

Comment by bilby, 5 months ago

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:38:14 +0000

I'd love to be able to say, "Excuse me, sir, have you seen my thylacine?"

Comment by Prolagus, 6 months ago

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:35:50 +0000

Oh, Latin. It's so much funnier now that I don't get a grade for it.

Comment by sionnach, 6 months ago

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:31:43 +0000

This list is now open for business!

Comment by Prolagus, 6 months ago

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:19:37 +0000

Why isn't this list open? :-(
I dare to suggest, lippis et tonsoribus.

Comment by oroboros, 6 months ago

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:57:46 +0000

Listo Fabuloso, sionnach. Bravo! Favorited.

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:05:25 +0000

cool list sionnach--my favorite definition is the one you put on the state motto of Virginia. :) I think "da capo al fine" (my second-favorite definition) is actually Italian, though...