convenit credere? Mihi, an nescio cui puero parvulo muculento, quamlibet pulchellus sit?
Look, these legal fees are putting quite a dent in the old collection plate
En, mercedes iurisperitorum discum eleemosynarium vero vacuefaciunt
What if I say one million Our Fathers and a couple hundred thousand Hail Marys and we just call it even?
Si Orationum Dominicarum decies centena milia recitabo, Salutationumque Beatae Mariae bis vel ter ducena milia, eritne satis?
The devil made me do it!
Diabolus me coegit peccare!
Learned Latin for Lovers—
SERMO LATINUS DOCTUS AMATORIBUS
I’m only repeating a query that dates back to the Chaldeans, but may I ask, what is your sign?
Si modo licet mihi te rogare idem quod antiqui Chaldaei suas puellas rogare solebant—quo signo nata es?
I think it was Pliny the Elder—or was it Pliny the Younger?—who first pioneered the concept of self-introduction by way of the purchase of a libation, and it is really in homage to him that I am moved to offer to buy you a drink
Credo Gaium Plinium Secundum Maiorem—aut Gaium Plinium Caecilium Secundum Minorem—instituisse ut vir, qui se notiorem puellae facere vellet, ei aliquid liquoris Lyaei compararet; itaque in commemorationem illius iuvat potiunculam tibi praebere
Cicero phrased it best, and I am merely quoting the master when I am driven to remark, “Nice tits.”
Hoc Marcus Tullius optime verbis expressit, neque profero alia quam ipsissima verba optimi omnium oratorum cum adsevero te venustas habere mammas
* Cicero phrased it best, and I am merely quoting the master when I am driven to remark, “Nice tits.”
** It is required of you to go fuck yourself.
Just as Aeneas inquired of Dido in Book Four of the Aeneid after stating his desire to install his obelisk in her temple of love, your place or mine?
A te quaeso, sicut in Aeneidos libro quarto Aeneas, elocutus desiderium erigendi suum obeliscum in templo Venereo Didonis, ab ea quaesivit, tuae domi an meae?
In the deathless words of the great philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius, of course I will respect you in the morning
Si me decet immortalia verba usurpare Marci Aurelii, imperatoris illustris philosophici, certe apud me in honore eris, cras mane
Classical Kiss-offs—
VALEDICTIONES ANTIQUAE
Kiss my basilisk
Basia basiliscum meum
Bite my zither
Morde citharam meam
Lick my licorice stick
Linge bacillum glycyrrhizae meum
Suck my aqueduct
Suge meum aquaeductum
Tune my lap trumpet
Tempera tubam quam in sinu fero
Lollipop my toga lizard
Liguri lacertam quae sub toga mea vivit
Lip-read my trouser scroll
Lege labris volumen inguinale mihi
Useful Syntax—
SYNTAXIS UTILIS
IMPERATIVE
Futue te ipsum
Go fuck yourself
IMPERFECT SUBJUNCTIVE EXPRESSING A WISH FOR THE PRESENT
Utinam tete futueres
Would that you would go fuck yourself
FIRST SUPINE EXPRESSING A WISH FOR THE PRESENT WITH VERBS OF MOTION
I fututum te ipsum
Go in order to fuck yourself
INFINITIVE WITH IMPERSONAL VERB
Te oportet futuere tete
It behooves you to go fuck yourself
PASSIVE PERIPHRASTIC
Tu tibi futuendus (futuendave) es
It is required of you to go fuck yourself
POTENTIAL SUBJUNCTIVE
Velim te futuas
I should like you to fuck yourself
SUBSTANTIVE CLAUSE OF PURPOSE
Te rogo ut futuas te ipsum
I beseech you to fuck yourself
GENITIVE OF PURPOSE
I tete futuendi gratia
Go for the sake of fucking yourself
FUTURE CONDITIONAL, LESS VIVID
Si te futuas, gaudeam
If you should go fuck yourself, I would rejoice
FUTURE CONDITIONAL, MORE VIVID
Se te futueris gaudebo
If you will have gone and fucked yourself, I will rejoice
PRESENT CONDITIONAL, CONTRARY TO FACT
Si te futueres, gauderem
If you were fucking yourself, I would be rejoicing
PAST CONDITIONAL, CONTRARY TO FACT
Se te futuisses, gavisus (gavisave) essem
If you had fucked yourself, I would have rejoiced
FUTURE PARTICIPLE DENOTING INTENTION OR LIKELIHOOD
Tete fututure, te saluto
You who are about to go fuck yourself, I