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

[Bitmap]

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.

Ah, come on!

 

[Pacifica]

I said ter totidem saltem, to mean 'at least three times as many (as 12, that is 36).

Oh, I see... That wasn't clear to me, because saltem was so far from the number it was meant to modify.

 

[Pacifica]

It was a bit of a stretch, anyway, because when you say "at least such and such number", there's usually a possibility for it to be that exact number, even though it may be more.

 

[Glabrigausapes]

That wasn't clear to me, because saltem was so far from the number it was meant to modify.

I'll grant that, but let's just call it a 'riddle-within-a-riddle'.

there's usually a possibility for it to be that exact number

Does anyone qualify with 'at least' when he means precisely that number?
'Wow, what a turnout. There's at least a hundred people here!' = 'I'm certain there are more than a hundred people here.'

 

[Bitmap]

'Wow, what a turnout. There's at least a hundred people here!' = 'I'm certain there are more than a hundred people here.'

No, but few people disguise such statements in a mathmatical operation

 

[Pacifica]

Well, at least a hundred means what it means: a hundred or more. Admittedly, it's probably more, but in any case it would be weird to say "at least a hundred" when you know there are precisely 145 and can't be any fewer. But I grant you this was a riddle anyway, so there's room for unusualness and obscurity.

 

[Glabrigausapes]

No, but few people disguise such statements in a mathmatical operation

And we wouldn't want anything disguised in a riddle.

 

[Agrippa]

How about my "Quae sum civitas?"

 

[Glabrigausapes]

How about my "Quae sum civitas?"

Uhh, New Jersey?

 

[Agrippa]

No sir, I am not NJ..., sed civitas sum finitima.

 

[Bitmap]

Are you New York?

 

[Agrippa]

Are you New York?

Non sum, doctrinae omnis antistes,
sed auxilium vobis venio:
Quattuor mihi sunt termini: ad terram versus definita sum tribus terminis regula et circino descriptis, ad oceanum versus maritima ora incomposita.

 

[Bitmap]

So you're Delaware?

 

[Agrippa]

... Delaware?

Gallina caerulea cacillando tibi gratulatur.

 

[Bitmap]

Wait, that was right?

 

[Agrippa]

Wait, that was right?

Yes, sir, it was. Inspice modo tabulam geographicam.

 

[Bitmap]

si quis est in luctibus,
si quis consternatur,
mos est, usque ut in nos
caput illidatur.

 

[Pacifica]

Walls (parietes)?

 

[Bitmap]

Almost.

dic quid simus, ante nos
queritur amator
clausas. ne compilat vos,
facimus, furator.

 

[Pacifica]

A door (fores)?