ViaGregorio

Hi Mel, It seems like Latin tattoos have taken the tattoo world by a storm, since Angelina Jolie got one. But you're right, they can easily go wrong. A Latin tattoo translater could help one out for just 10 dollars.......... Don't like tattoos either, Jeroen Have another look at the title of the thread...you'll see it's "English to Latin translation" and not "please inform me on your opinion of tattoos". I'll try out a different source.

Designing a tattoo I'm considering having put on my back that includes the insignia of the Scottish clan from the maternal side of my family. The image central to the insignia is of a castle turret on a small, rocky island. Since the insignia doesn't have an interesting motto associated with it I thought about the phrases "stand your ground" or "I stand my ground" or something along those lines. Do either of those phrases translate readily? Any other recommendations? Thanks in advance for any assistance!

I'm quite enjoying all this - would you keep us informed as to how it all goes. Absolutely, I'll make a post with some pictures when the project is over.

What I mean by the phrase is what one would mean when saying the phrase today...a remark on how political events are taking their usual course by means of the usual tactics. I realize that the Romans thought very differently on this matter. I naively thought that the translation, even if it wasn't a phrase they used, would be straight forward to construct. This shows my ignorance on classical linguistics!

Just wanted to say thanks for all of your great input. As an educator this forum is indispensable, you've all been a great help. Bad news is, now I'm going to be unloading more questions on you from time to time!

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Have there been no replies so far because this is a difficult phrase to translate, or did I not ask in the proper format?

Thanks for all the info, that's a BIG help to me. Yeah, this is set during the later Republic years. As another facet of this project they did go on successful conquest in a foreign land and take some prisoners, so that will help. They also helped finance the opening of a gladiator school. So the cost of a gladiator dying would be expensive, but would it be considered a worthwhile investment in terms of the crowd getting to see an especially action packed and gory fight and leaving entertained and satisfied?

For this project based Roman unit I'm creating I'm going to have student groups (organized as the aristocratic political base of varying candidates to become Consul)helping to design a day of gladiatorial events. They'll basically be doing the behind the scenes work to help organize the event being financed and sponsored by their candidate. What I need help with is a generated list of individual things which a sponsoring group would have had to finance. For the sake of simplification, the accuracy of the price does not matter as much as the relative cost from one item to another. I need a list like this so that student will have to invest "money" (which they have accumulated from other phases of this project) to try and put on the most spectacular event. The more spectacular, the more "popularity points" their politician wins. My overall objective is for them to learn some specifics about the gladiatorial events as well as a grasp on the concept of how much mass entertainment played a roll in the politics of the day.

Excellent, thanks so much for your feedback. I'm in the middle of creating a project based Roman unit for my World History class and I'm going to have a chariot race involved. I'm going to literally turn my class into the Circus Maximus. I'm going to get several remote controlled cars and use paper to cover the car and make it appear to be a team of horses, and I'm going to build mini chariots to hitch to the back of the remote controlled cars which the students will race. The winner of the race will have an impact on the political outcome of the overall simulation (winning their politician popularity points and perhaps some money as well). This is going to be fun.

In Republican Rome, what link was there between politics and the circus races? Did campaigning politicians benefit in some capacity from the quality of the races, or from the victory of a specific stable faction? Thanks advance for any input!

What would the closest translation of "politics as usual" to Latin be? Thanks in advance for your help!

Thank you! Unfortunately the google book ends slightly before the excerpt you suggested I look at.

Can anyone link me to good secondary or primary accounts of the following topics: A. The large plantations where crops were raised by slaves for export to Rome B. The mines and quarries that provided Rome with metals and stone Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you!

From what port did Roman forces typically depart to journey by sea when traveling to Greek lands or further East to present-day Turkey?