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| 25 NOV 2010 at 6:49pm |
Azzurri

Banned for 15395 days
Posts : 9755 Joined: 24 NOV 2009 Location: 0, Kentucky
Status : Offline | "Sieze this honkus", spoken by Gregory Hines in the movie History of the World by Mel Brooks.
It is better to die by a swords quick thrust than to be impaled for a lifetime upon the sharp tongue of a woman.-Grimjack
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| 25 NOV 2010 at 6:58pm |
destraexGlobal Moderator


Posts : 6188 Joined: 8 MAY 2001 Location: AT, 3D
Status : Offline | beware the ides of march

Medieval Real Time, Mount and Blade style Historical Combat.

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| 25 NOV 2010 at 7:36pm |
printshopCenturion


Posts : 144 Joined: 15 OCT 2003
Status : Offline | "At night there is no such thing as an ugly woman” Ovid
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| 25 NOV 2010 at 8:07pm |
RobearCenturion


Posts : 612 Joined: 2 OCT 2005
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I've been learning a lot about that in my life recently and want to find a good quote to help express how it is to have trust broken.
Well, the canonical example is Julius Caesar to his old friend and rival as he joined the crowd of assassins. "Et tu, Brute?" "You too, Brutus?" (literally "and you")
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| 25 NOV 2010 at 8:42pm |
SeytanCenturion


Posts : 554 Joined: 23 JUL 2009 Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By printshop
"At night there is no such thing as an ugly woman” Ovid
So true!
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| 25 NOV 2010 at 8:52pm |
GusingtonGeneral


Posts : 18089 Joined: 16 AUG 2004 Location: US, USMA
Status : Offline | Robear got the best one I think...
I'm glad my character uses a shield because I may be taking a bashing here soon.
- Rayfer

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| 25 NOV 2010 at 10:30pm |
TriggertimeCenturion


Posts : 57 Joined: 13 DEC 2004
Status : Online | Robear that sounds interesting. But what exactly does "Et tu, Brute?" "You too, Brutus?" translate to? Is that what Ceasar said?
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| 26 NOV 2010 at 2:55am |
TpekCommander


Posts : 2923 Joined: 29 NOV 2009
Status : Offline | Just to point out, a lot of Latin phrases out there aren't actually Roman, but were written hundreds of years later by completely different people.
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| 26 NOV 2010 at 5:20am |
StaggerwingColonel


Posts : 3317 Joined: 4 AUG 2007
Status : Offline | Considering the other thread running right now about SotS, how about: "Repensum Est Canicula"
Wit Ye further, or how...?
-Voluspa (Poetic Eddas)

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| 26 NOV 2010 at 6:04am |
RobearCenturion


Posts : 612 Joined: 2 OCT 2005
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Robear that sounds interesting. But what exactly does "Et tu, Brute?" "You too, Brutus?" translate to? Is that what Ceasar said?
Supposedly, yes. Here's one explanation:
In 44 BC, Julius Caesar was murdered by a group of senators. They were led by Marcus Brutus, who had previously been a close friend of Caesar. There's no substantiated evidence to show that Julius Caesar spoke those words. They come to us via Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar which, like many of his history plays, tends to massage historical record somewhat for dramatic effect. In the play Caesar begins to resist the attack but resigns himself to his fate when he sees that his friend is amongst the plotters:
Caesar: Doth not Brutus bootless kneel?
Casca: Speak, hands, for me! [They stab Caesar.]
Caesar: Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar! [Dies.]
Cinna: Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/128900.html
If you have not read Julius Caesar, it's worth it.
Wikipedia has a little more on the historical claims for Caesar's last words.
The phrase evidently follows in the tradition of the Roman historian Suetonius, who reports that others have claimed Caesar's last words were the Greek phrase "?α? s? t?????;"[4] (transliterated as "Kai su, teknon?": "You too, my child?" in English or "Tu quoque, Brute, fili mi" in Latin). Caesar is known to have spoken excellent Greek and there would be nothing strange in this. Suetonius himself claims Caesar said nothing as he died.[5] Plutarch also reports that Caesar said nothing and merely pulled his toga over his head when he saw Brutus among the conspirators.[6]
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| 26 NOV 2010 at 11:10am |
mitra35Centurion


Posts : 194 Joined: 6 MAR 2011 Location: 0
Status : Online | Risus abundat in ore stultorum -> Abundant laughs in the mouth of the foolish
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| 26 NOV 2010 at 3:11pm |
Jointops06Commander


Posts : 2653 Joined: 20 JUL 2004
Status : Offline | "Ave, Caesar, morituri te salutant!" (Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die, salute you!)
As spoken by gladiators before the fight.
I have often considered this as a tatoo for some strange reason with gladius below it. Now I know I am 40+
That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse. Then again quietly confident but what of? The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

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| 26 NOV 2010 at 5:38pm |
UberhauskaninichenCenturion


Posts : 465 Joined: 22 JUN 2006
Status : Offline | I think this guy has trust issues:
Vegetius: "Si vis pacem, para bellum"
If you want peace, prepare for war.
"I am a thirty second bomb. I am a thirty second bomb. Twenty-nine, twenty-eight..." Robert A. Heinlein [U]Starship Troopers[/U] 1959
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| 26 NOV 2010 at 7:20pm |
ÞórgrímrCenturion


Posts : 321 Joined: 9 JAN 2009
Status : Offline | This one is rather good:
quae nocent docent: "things that hurt teach."
Use the pain to learn a lesson, and not repeat what cause the original pain.
Cheers, Thor
Sic vis pacem, para bellum
If you want peace, prepare for war
Saepius Exertus, Semper Fidelis, Frater Infinitas
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