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Deconstructing Carthage


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Deconstructing Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam usually abbreviated to Carthago delenda est:
"The phrase employs the gerundive, a verbal adjective, of deleo, delere, delevi, deletum, "to destroy",[2] (delendus, -a, -um). The future passive participle "delenda" (meaning "to be destroyed") is then combined with the verb sum ("to be"[3]) or parts thereof, adds an element of compulsion or necessity, yielding "is to be destroyed", or, as it is more commonly rendered "must be destroyed". This then forms a predicative adjective.[4] This construction in Latin is known as the passive periphrastic. Carthago, -inis being a feminine noun, the feminine gender of the gerundive is applied. The fuller forms Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam or Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam use the so-called accusative and infinitive for the indirect statement."
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:blink::blink::wacko:

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So I sez to Marcus Ophilius, “Dude, Caveat Emptor”! 
 

“Oh totes”, he responded. “E Pluribus Unum”. 
 

Then he split an infinitive and we laughed and laughed.

Posted
6 minutes ago, Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L said:

New Year's Eve party starting early there SD???:lol:

 

 

Nah, just being a jerk! :D

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5 minutes ago, Dusty Wyatt said:

I must have been absent from school that day.

 

That can screw up everything. In tenth grade, I dropped my pencil in geometry class and bent over to get it. By the time I sat back up the teacher had apparently imparted the secret of math and I missed it. I never caught up.

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15 minutes ago, Tex Jones, SASS 2263 said:

Quo usque tandem abutere, Josephus, patientia nostra?

Et quis novit Cisero ejus! 
Et quod sic tam diu perseverare in statu existit.

 

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1 hour ago, Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L said:

always wondered about that

 

I ask TN Williams about this just yesterday and he said carthage and calsip buildup in his knee needs to be

destroyed.    He was looking for a Latin doctor to perform the surgery.

 

The ole boy ain't right.

:D

 

..........Widder

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Illegitimas non carborundum. :rolleyes: :P

 

Words to live by.  :D

Yer right don't let the barstiches wear ya down.

kR

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Well, now that I have a headache, I'm going to go take a nap.

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And now, for the last word on the subject:

 

Doc : In vino veritas.
Ringo : Age quod agis.
Doc : Credat Judaeus Apella, non ego.
Ringo : Juventus stultorum magister.
Doc : In pace requiescat!

 

Posted
1 hour ago, Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 said:

I'm having a hard time with this.  Is this ecclesiastic Latin or classical Latin?

 

I believe it is classiastic Latin.

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3 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Illegitimas non carborundum. :rolleyes: :P

 

Words to live by.  :D

The best advice my Father ever gave me. Used to carry business cards with that on the back! :D

On the front it said “Courtesy is the Calling Card of a Gentleman.”

that was to remind me not to act in kind to the ‘Illegitimas’.

CJ

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6 hours ago, Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 said:

I'm having a hard time with this.  Is this ecclesiastic Latin or classical Latin?

I am not sure, but I don’t think it is pig Latin.

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