Quid sum? (What am I?) Latin writing game

Agrippa

Civis Illustris

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Location:
Western Europe
Semper aliquid novi! Scripsi solis fervore vexatus... Ne quid vituperandum censeas, ecce

Nescio quod dicas carmen: mihi, Rustice, pande!
 

Glabrigausapes

Philistine

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
Milwaukee
Sub poemate, sic:
Ora duodecim habemus...

Tute nobeis dice quid siemus, sapiens coniector.
Responsum patet Anglice!
 

Pacifica

grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
A pair of dice (duo tali)?

The numbers don't seem to add up, though, but it's my best guess...
 

Glabrigausapes

Philistine

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
Milwaukee
Ay, laddy.

The numbers don't seem to add up, though, but it's my best guess...
Aw, crap. I think I multiplied one time too many. :eek: I can't even remember what number I had in mind. I got distracted trying to make the meter work & the Latin music on the radio. :crazy:
At any rate, you're turnum ist.
 

Glabrigausapes

Philistine

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
Milwaukee
And when I say 'Latin', I mean bad Mexican music, like Daddy Yankee.
 

Glabrigausapes

Philistine

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
Milwaukee
Wait, 1+2+3+4+5+6 is... 21? x 2 is 42? Am I out of my gourd?
 

Glabrigausapes

Philistine

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
Milwaukee
42 pips, 12 faces times 3 is 36?
 

Glabrigausapes

Philistine

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
Milwaukee
Do you routinely address females as laddy? Shouldn't it be lassie?
Hah! It shouldn't be either. :toothless: You're my elder & I must therefore call you only 'Madam' or 'Your Holy Reverence(sse)'.
 

Pacifica

grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
Timuit nauta intra mea tria latera navigare. Quid sum?
 

Agrippa

Civis Illustris

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Location:
Western Europe
Di meliora...!
Videtur esse Bermuda sive Diaboli Triangulum.
 

Glabrigausapes

Philistine

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
Milwaukee
Nonne aliquis arithmeticam respexerit meam?
42 pips, 12 faces times 3 is 36?
Tale ut sequatur, (3x12) < 42?
 
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Nonne aliquis arithmeticam respexerit meam?

Tale ut sequatur, (3x12) < 42?
Sorry, I don't know what you're talking about.

If it's any relief to you, I wouldn't have got your puzzle even if the maths had been right ... and that although I sort of knew I had to look for an English word in the last line :D
 

Pacifica

grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
Dixisti "duodecim", deinde "ter totidem". Ter duodecim sunt triginta sex. Qui igitur cohaeret? Ubi in duobus talis invenias triginta sex?
 

Agrippa

Civis Illustris

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
Western Europe
Una ex quinquaginta Civitatibus Foederatis Americae solis geometricis formis terminatur, atque ita ut eius regio in septentriones spectans parte arcus circuli paene perfecti definiatur.

Quae sum civitas?
 

Glabrigausapes

Philistine

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
Milwaukee
Ubi in duobus talis invenias triginta sex?
In the sum of all the 'black eyes' (lumina nigra), i.e. 'pips'. There are 21 eyes per die, meaning 42 total. I said ter totidem saltem, to mean 'at least three times as many (as 12, that is 36).
 

Glabrigausapes

Philistine

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
Milwaukee
If it's any relief to you, I wouldn't have got your puzzle even if the maths had been right ... and that although I sort of knew I had to look for an English word in the last line :D
The maths, I intend to show, are right. Two dice have a combined total of 12 faces & 42 pips. 42 is more than three times the sum of faces (i.e. 36), hence the saltem.
 
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