Posts: 22 Location: Germany
Tue 11 Sep, 2007 9:57 am
As a reference for ancient letters here is a link to a picture of the ancient Trajan's Column in Rome with the shape of the capital letters.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopa...olumn.html
The old ancient latin alphabet is:
A B C D E F (G) H I K L M N O P Q R S T V X. Always in CAPITAL LETTERS ! And the Romans used no spaces between the words on inscriptions.
| Andy Ferrato wrote: |
also i've seen it as SEMEL IN ANNO LICET INSANIRE on the internet too, is this a notable differance?
sorry if i'm sounding pedantic but i don't want to get something tattoo'd on myself permanently just to have some oxford student tell me i'm an idiot in 5 years. Plus you guys are are too intelligent, to not wring you of as much information as possible. |
My latin is quite rusty, but in my opinion "SEMEL IN ANNO LICET INSANIRE" is the correct order of words.
Last edited by Oliver Wiegand on Tue 11 Sep, 2007 10:02 am; edited 1 time in total
Posts: 59 Location: Poland
Tue 11 Sep, 2007 9:58 am
If you mean the black letters, not the brown ones, then no problem. Latin-latin, as said above, used mostly capitals for official writing.
Cheers
Mick
Posts: 291 Location: NW Ark
Tue 11 Sep, 2007 10:40 am
| Andy Ferrato wrote: |
Would i be correct in applying something like this...
http://www.sweb.cz/ls78/images/tajrmalph.gif
to the phrase SEMEL IN ANNO INSANIRE LICET or am i over simplifying...
also i've seen it as SEMEL IN ANNO LICET INSANIRE on the internet too, is this a notable differance?
sorry if i'm sounding pedantic but i don't want to get something tattoo'd on myself permanently just to have some oxford student tell me i'm an idiot in 5 years. Plus you guys are are too intelligent, to not wring you of as much information as possible. |
Word order means little in Latin. Classical authors and poets adjusted it, typically, for "sound" and "flow".
Posts: 2,698 Location: Indonesia
Fri 14 Sep, 2007 7:18 am
Latin is an inflecting language--what matters is the inflection, not word order. So "Brutus Caesarem tuit" and "Caesarem Brutus tuit" both means "Brutus kill(ed?) Caesar" while "Caesar Brutum tuit" and "Brutum Caesar tuit" both mean "Caesar killed Brutus"--just to make a very crude set of examples.
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