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

[Pacifica]

Not quite ... it's a tad simpler ...

A spoon (cochlear)?

 

[Bitmap]

Yes ... well done I was about to write another hint, but you are too good

 

[Pacifica]

Decemplici olim a triplici
Insculptas lege (quid sumus?)
Vitulum per ira concita
Redegit nos in fragmina.

 

[Bitmap]

Are you the 10 commandments?

 

[Pacifica]

Almost.

 

[Issacus Divus]

The Tanakh?

 

[Pacifica]

No.

 

[Bitmap]

Are you the stones upon which the 10 commandments were written? (tabulae quibus decem praecepta inscripta sunt)

 

[Pacifica]

Yes. More specifically the first set of tablets, which were broken by Moses in his anger and then replaced.

 

[Bitmap]

I think there is no classical Latin word for this ...

quid sum? me birotam nasalem forte vocabis ...
stulte! insulse! vides acrius arte mea.

 

[Pacifica]

A pair of glasses (par perspicillorum)?

 

[Bitmap]

Yes!

Is that what it is called? I thought it was just perspicullum (without the strange English addiction to turn it into a plurale tantum).

 

[Pacifica]

Dunno. I've always used it and seen it used as plural by others, but admittedly I've never read it in an original work.

It's plural in French too.

 

[Pacifica]

It isn't strange since there are literally two glasses in a pair of glasses.

 

[Bitmap]

French also puts pasta in the plural.

 

[Pacifica]

Epistulam claudo aut de charta regia pendeo. Quid sum?

 

[Bitmap]

Are you a seal (of approval) (phoca)?

 

[Pacifica]

Lol. I am a seal (sigillum).

 

[Pacifica]

Epistulam claudo aut de charta regia pendeo. Quid sum?

Corrected this.

 

[Bitmap]

nevermind