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Latin translation
Category: Miscellaneous Asked by: bekka135-ga List Price: $5.00 |
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12 Sep 2006 18:18 PDT
Expires: 25 Sep 2006 16:35 PDT Question ID: 764668 |
I would like to know the latin translation of the latin proverb "let us go, where fate directs us" |
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Re: Latin translation
From: markvmd-ga on 12 Sep 2006 21:01 PDT |
How about "imus ad fatum" which would be "we go to [our divine] destiny." I use fatum because of the divine aspect rather than fortuna, which includes aspects of luck, or fatalis, which tends to mean a bad ending. Either of these words could be substituted, I suppose. Imus is pronounced "EE-muss" to rhyme with tea puss. Fatum has the a sound that father has (if memory serves). |
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Re: Latin translation
From: pinkfreud-ga on 12 Sep 2006 21:20 PDT |
Quo fata ferunt, meaning "where the fates bear us," is the national motto of Bermuda. |
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Re: Latin translation
From: mjrmjr-ga on 14 Sep 2006 03:56 PDT |
The latin you are thinking of is a quotation from Vergil's Aeneid, Book 5.709: I add the following line as well. The context is as follows: Aeneas and his Trojans have landed in Sicily after lots of wanderings. The wives of the Trojans have just burnt the Trojan ships (they are fed up with all the travelling they have been doing), and Aeneas is feeling dejected. His wondering whether to stay in Sicily, forgetgul of his fate (which is to bring the Trojans to Italy), or push on with his mission. He receives some advice from a seer named Nautes, who says: nate dea, quo fata trahunt retrahuntque sequamur quidquid erit, superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est. "son of a goddess (Aeneas' mother was Venus), let us follow where the fates take us or take us back: whatever will be, every (mis-)fortune can be overcome through endurance" |
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