i want this quote translated.
"No one begs the sun for mercy."
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i want this quote translated.
"No one begs the sun for mercy."
http://www.translation-guide.com/fre...glish&to=Latin
nemo peto sol solis pro misericordia
seems about right...
Just E-mailed my daughter, she should have no problem with this, being the language nerd that she is.
lol thanks. i wanna make sure its absolutely correct before i permanently ink it on myself. i translated myself but i thought best to ask too.
that stuff dont come off. (well cheaply or easily atleast) :D
Why don't people beg the sun for mercy?
Er, why don't you just tattoo it in English?! Then you won't risk the ridicule of passing Roman legionnaires or 85 year-old English grammatarians...
Does it personally matter to you that it's in Latin? Nobody's gonna understand it right, which means you must want it for attention... so, if you want a tattoo as a conversation starter why not just get the word 'olm' tattooed on your forehead? :D
Not attacking you, I got ink myself, just don't understand your reasoning...
beg is the word i was having trouble with.
it seems like it could be posco, precor, or peto i dont have a clue which is the proper one for the usage i want.
peto : to ask for, beg, request, demand / to sue for.
posco : to beg.
precor : to beseech, pray, beg, entreat, invoke.
http://arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Latin/
People routinely beg a space ghost and his son (but it's not really his son, it's a 1/3 of the space ghost) for mercy. I don't think the sun is much different. Except that it really exists. Which means people probably ask it for all kinds of things. Including mercy, from time to time.
FWIW I would go for 'peto'. But then I learned classical Latin: this seems a mix, I'm pretty sure 'precor' is a newer form (doesn't even look like a verb to me) and 'posco' definitely is. Plus, 'sue for' would be a good meaning to go for.
Make sure you don't get your Latins mixed up... if you get a mix of classical Latin and medieval Church Latin, hell, neither Centurions nor 12th century monks will be able to understand you! :D
http://latinforum.org/
They'll translate it for you, and it's more accurate than a Kung Fu forum.
Wait till my daughter looks it up. she will figure it out right.
people believe that tiny little magnets come together in different ratios to make stuff, and that some german guy who failed highschool was right about there being a limit to how fast something can go.
Anything sounds crazy if you word it correctly.