{"id":150,"date":"2007-05-08T07:08:11","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T13:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=150"},"modified":"2007-05-08T07:08:11","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T13:08:11","slug":"foreign-poems-or-a-reasonable-facsimile-thereof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Foreign poems, or a reasonable facsimile thereof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futilitycloset.com\/2005\/11\/15\/it-means-just-what-i-choose-it-to-mean\/\">this short article<\/a>, which reminded me of this poem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Civile, se ergo.<br \/>\nFortibus es inaro.<br \/>\nNovile, deus trux.<br \/>\nVatis inem? Causan dux.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While searching for a link that might have that one, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/forum\/a3a7b27b37b90.htm\">this list of handy latin phrases<\/a>. I have a t-shirt with the &#8220;Quantum materiae materiatur &#8230;&#8221; one. I also have a t-shirt that reads,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Catapultum habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That translates to &#8220;I have a catapult. Give me all the money or I shall hurl an immense rock at your head.&#8221; I&#8217;d like one with either of the phrases,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.<\/p>\n<p>Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>from the link. The first one reminds me of a date I had some years back. I fixed dinner. She brought her son over. He brought a friend (whom I wasn&#8217;t expecting). Son and friend were sullen, hostile, and generally less-than-pleasant the entire time. As they left, he turned to me and said that he would bet that I didn&#8217;t want to see him again. I replied that I was ok with it, because I had plenty of rope and duct tape. As it turns out, though, his mother and I stopped dating not long after that. It wasn&#8217;t all about him, but he was certainly a factor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across this short article, which reminded me of this poem: Civile, se ergo. Fortibus es inaro. Novile, deus trux. Vatis inem? Causan dux. While searching for a link [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-its-all-about-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}