Ideas needed for a Latin name for a small boat

Christian Alexander

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That could work, haha.
And forgot to mention I really liked Adrian's "Navis Bacchi", that's a pretty friggin sweet idea
 

Nikolaos

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Quid significat "crapulatus rursum"? Scio et "crapulatus" et "rursum", sed "crapulatus rursum" nescio.

Hm, this is difficult. Perhaps something like piscis ebrius, "the drunken fish". It wouldn't have much of a back story, though, unless you care to invent one.
 

Nikolaos

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"Again"... I may or may not have known that meaning before. Thanks!
 

Pacifica

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You're welcome.

By the way, all propositions that have not been translated yet:
Navis Bacchi
Bacchus's boat.
Well, idem, "Bacchus".
In Vino Veritas
In wine is truth.
Nunc est bibendum
Now is time to drink.
Baccho Venerique deditus
Devoted to Bacchus (= wine) and Venus ( = sex).
Navigare est perpotare
To sail is to drink hard.
Aut bibat aut abeat (Cicero)
Let him drink or go away.
Strenue potare/potamus
To drink vigourously/we drink vigourously.
 

Pacifica

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Ah, scilicet e Vulgata. :) Putabam ita esse, cum soleat, sed cum non invenissem, putavi fortasse aliunde excerptum esse et rogavi. Hic tamen habetur "exercebantur" nec "loquebantur"... Variae lectiones fortasse extant.
 
 

Matthaeus

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Bene!
 
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