[Sca-cooks] translation needed

[Jeff Gedney]

Hmmm... 
maybe it should say:
basia dicere triste vale podicus tuum.


(*interesting thought... IIRC, the Romans traditionally did not kiss romantically, rather it was used as a familial greeting. Strictly a "mother-son" sort of thing... Kissing a lover on the lips would have been considered shocking, sort of playacting at incestuous behavior. I think it took the Gauls to teach that to the Romans)


Capt Elias
Dragonship Haven, East
(Stratford, CT, USA)
Apprentice in the House of Silverwing

-Renaissance Geek of the Cyber Seas
- Help! I am being pecked to death by the Ducks of Dilletanteism! 
There are SO damn many more things I want to try in 
the SCA than I can possibly have time for. 
It's killing me!!!

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Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing;
Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give
To sounds confused; behold the threaden sails,
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
Breasting the lofty surge: O, do but think
You stand upon the ravage and behold
A city on the inconstant billows dancing;
For so appears this fleet majestical,
Holding due course to Harfleur. 
  - Shakespeare - Henry V, Act III, Prologue







---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Radei Drchevich" <radei at moscowmail.com>
Reply-To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Date:  Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:45:20 -0500

>Actually Latin has many an idiographic similarity to modern English. 4
>years of latin payes off sometimes<g>.
>
>For example : and ugly person in English is "A Dog", in Latin "Canum"
>which means dog.
>
>joy
>
>radei
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Robin
>  To: "Cooks within the SCA"
>  Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] translation needed
>  Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 19:16:37 -0500
>
>
>  morgana.abbey at juno.com wrote:
>
>  > A friend of mine just asked what this means: basia asinus tuus vale
>  >
>  >
>  I have never studied Latin, but a quick Web search tells me that
>  this phrase means "kiss your ass goodbye". The word "asinus" means
>  "ass", as in donkey -- somehow I don't think it has the same
>  alternate meaning in Latin as it does in English.
>
>  -- Brighid ni Chiarain
>  Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
>  Robin Carroll-Mann *** rcmann4 at earthlink.net
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