Latin Insults

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Pacifica

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Pedem or pedes tollere = to lift (one's or someone else's) leg(s) to adopt a position appropriate for the thing.
 

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Pedem or pedes tollere = to lift (one's or someone else's) leg(s) to adopt a position appropriate for the thing.
Pedem or pedes tollere = to lift (one's or someone else's) leg(s) to adopt a position appropriate for the thing.
I have to admit that I don't always get these: "the thing"? Next you'll doing like the old translations of Martial and leaving out the saucy bits.

And "Alicui ore morigerari: to be compliant to someone with the mouth": I thought initially perhaps to pay lip service:confused: (which one could maybe understand in a few ways also, and I maybe will from now on!)





And I see that for "conveniebat vaginam tuam machaera militis" earlier, you avoided the translation altogether. It's getting very 19th century-ish around here. :poke: ("poke", as they say)


A nod is as good as a wink to a cow in the dark.

For people into word roots, I came upon this book: quite nice.

By the way: keep it up: this is great for my Latin, - what beats Martial? - check out his 10.75: not rude at all, but wonderful, though brutal.
But do please give sources when possible.
 

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Here are some great Latin insults to add to the list (from the latest edition of the Horrible Histories magazine). Be warned: these phrases are EXTREMELY RUDE! ;)
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I don't know where they got vos odorandum from, but I suspect Google Translate or similar.
 
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Can anyone make sense of "vos odorandum"?
I would've guessed "You smell" is "oletis" or "oles"

"Get the fuck out of here" can also be expressed as abi in malam rem / in malam crucem
but amove te is also fine I think
 

Lysandra

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To be honest, I wasn't entirely sure about "vos odorandum" either. I thought it meant something like "you must be smelt" because "odorandum" is a gerundive...but that doesn't much sense either. I've tried to look up this phrase on the internet to see where the writers of the article could have taken it from. The only thing I've found so far is this line here and I'm not sure what its source is...

vos odorandum flores, sed quasi anima tua est putrida
 

Pacifica

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omnium non solum bipedum sed etiam quadrupedum spurcissimus

"The foulest not only of all bipeds but even of all quadrupeds."

Applied to Helagabalus by senators after his death, according to the Historia Augusta.

I've never read the Historia Augusta before, yet this phrase rings a bell. I wonder if I have seen it quoted somewhere before or if I have met a similar one in another work.
 

Pacifica

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Indeed, a very similar one occurs in Cicero's De Domo Sua, and that's where I saw it:

Hoc tu scriptore, hoc consiliario, hoc ministro omnium non bipedum solum sed etiam quadrupedum impurissimo, rem publicam perdidisti.
 

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Are there any word for 'cum' and 'to cum' in Latin?
Since there are no native Latin speakers it's safe to assume the old Romans didn't have a word for it and soon abandoned such deplorable activity! :hat:
 
 

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I have a copy of Adams' Latin Sexual Vocabulary lying around somewhere. If I come across it, I'll look that up.
 

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Maybe 'To cum'?
"O, mea Lesbia, si me bene fellabis, super faciem (tuam) patrabo."
..ad faciem (tuam) patrabo."

Or something like that, I guess.
 
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