What would be the best way to translate “remember to live for you are dying” or “remember to live for you must die” into Latin.
I know the terms “memento vivere” and “memento mori” but am clueless as to how to conjoin them. Thank you!

I was thinking today that I wanted to say in Latin "I'm proud of you" but the only words I could think of or find in the dictionary were forms of superbus, which means more like proud as in haughty. There was a note that it was poetic and/or post-Augustan usage to use superbus to mean having pride in some accomplishment ( Read more... )

Quoth me from the LatinStudy Email Group:
I dislike sticking close to "answer keys" - I don't like the feeling I'm being brainwashed into acting like a zombie identical to everyone else, unless there is a very clearly delineated reason why one must use x ( Read more... )

 Salvete

I've been asked to read a prayer in Latin at a church event, but I was not informed until today (event tomorrow) that I needed to translate it as well. I'm afraid I've made a hash of it on such short notice, so I want to run some questions by all you lovely people.

So far I've got this:

Lord, you prayed that Your disciples might be united ( Read more... )

Someone asked me to translate "Lead, follow, or get out of the way!" for his email signature. What do you think of my translation?: Ducite uel sequimini uel abite!

Comments and suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

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