Quid sum? (What am I?) Latin writing game
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Are you George Clooney, a movie star in the film 'Three Kings' (1999)?
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Oh! You're the star from the New Testament! (sidus  Tongue.gif "(1) Tongue out :p")
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That wasn't too obvious ... it doesn't say anywhere that the dudes were kings. I suppose it doesn't even say anywhere that all of them were dudes.
)That wasn't too obvious ... it doesn't say anywhere that the dudes were kings. I suppose it doesn't even say anywhere that all of them were dudes.
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I know ... I'll be Caspar on Christmas Eve :<
But the Vulgate calls them magi (I suppose it's the same word in Greek)
They are "Weise" (wise people) in German, and "wise men" in King James.
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That's not up to you to decide
By the rules of this game, I should have long since written my puzzle 
Will you be performing a Christmas play?
And in French they're les Rois mages, the Magi Kings...
Haha, true... I guess the rules have de facto changed, though...
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Not on my own, but I'll be part of it.
They are the Three Holy Kings in German... Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar.And in French they're les Rois mages, the Magi Kings...
In Catholic areas (Austria, southern Germany and parts of west Germany around the Rhine), people paint C+M+B on other peoples' houses around Christmas time (do they also do that in Belgium?). Some also write K+M+B there (because Kaspar can be spelt with a K).
A few days ago, my mother asked me if I had any idea what CMB stood for. I said Christus Mansionem Benedicat ... and explained that it is sometimes spelt with a K, in which case it is to be taken as Kyrios ... Then she asked me "Ok, but do you know WHAT ELSE it stands for?"
I said "What are you talking about?" and she triumphantly said "The names of the three kings! Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar!"
I mean, if I know the Latin phrase, what are the chances I don't know the rest of the story? I gently reminded her that I explained the whole thing in a play some 12 years ago.
(She knew that stuff from a city tour through Zwickau she had taken one day earlier. She also gave me an explanation as to why there are only 11 and not 12 candles on a candle arch ... even though we don't have a single candle arch with 11 candles.)
I never implied that, lol.
Not that I know of.
Hm... What was the explanation?
By the way, I didn't mean in the Bible.
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I know, I didn't mean in the Bible, either.
The candles represent the disciples of Jesus, but they didn't admit the traitor Judas ...
All the candle archs we have, have either 10, 9, 7 or 5 candles, though.
You were mentioning the Vulgate and KJV in the post I was replying to then, so my reply was ambiguous.
Oh, I should have thought of that.
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Quid sum? sum realis, sum
irrationalis;
apud quosdam hominum
sum transcendentalis.
ab n=zero gradiens
summa primae partis
(infinitum adpetens)
sum n facultatis.
inter duo et tria
infinite tendo:
laus sit tibi, Noctua,
in m'inveniendo!
irrationalis;
apud quosdam hominum
sum transcendentalis.
ab n=zero gradiens
summa primae partis
(infinitum adpetens)
sum n facultatis.
inter duo et tria
infinite tendo:
laus sit tibi, Noctua,
in m'inveniendo!
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Excellent!
Vicipaedia calls it numerus Euleri.
Vicipaedia calls it numerus Euleri.
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quid sum? indoles superba
me duorum genuit:
alter mihi dedit verba,
alter cantum addidit.
ignem memoro deorum,
unitatem hominum.
civium Europaeorum
omnium in ore sum.
me duorum genuit:
alter mihi dedit verba,
alter cantum addidit.
ignem memoro deorum,
unitatem hominum.
civium Europaeorum
omnium in ore sum.
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What's the European anthem?