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%%->"Ten years ago, if you had mentioned the words “Manei Domini” to anyone, you could expect either a confused head-tilt reaction or a correction for your bad Latin."\\

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%%->"Ten years ago, if you had mentioned the words “Manei Domini” "Manei Domini" to anyone, you could expect either a confused head-tilt reaction or a correction for your bad Latin."\\




->Sometimes you’re queueing at a petrol station at 3:00A.M. in the morning, and there’s a line of murderers behind you, and you turn around and go, ''"Amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant!"'' and they go, ''"Fuck, he knows Latin! He knows a dead language! Run!"''

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\n->'''Agatín:''' ''"You are going to make that lady and that knight think I am a crook."''\\
'''Fortún Paja:''' ''"That lady and that knight don't care by the likes of you, dear Agatín."''\\
'''Agatín:''' ''"Pulvis et umbra sumus (We are dust and shadows)."''\\
'''Fortún Paja:''' ''"I'm warning you: I don't know a word of Greek."''\\
'''Agatín:''' ''"Vita est brevis (Life is short)."''\\
'''Fortún Paja:''' ''""''\\
'''Agatín:''' ''"I mean: 'We are nothing'."''
-->-- ''Literature/TheSwordOfSaintFerdinand''

->Sometimes you’re you're queueing at a petrol station at 3:00A.M. in the morning, and there’s there's a line of murderers behind you, and you turn around and go, ''"Amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant!"'' and they go, ''"Fuck, he knows Latin! He knows a dead language! Run!"''
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-->-- '''Creator/EddieIzzard''', ''Stripped''

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-->-- '''Creator/EddieIzzard''', ''Stripped''''Stripped''

->'''Jim Hacker''': Look at Latin, hardly anybody uses that nowadays.
->'''Sir Humphrey Appleby''': Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis. [[labelnote:Lat.]]Times are changed; we also are changed with them.[[/labelnote]]
->'''Hacker''': ...what?
->'''Humphrey''': Times change, and we change with the times.
->'''Hacker''': Precisely.
->'''Humphrey''': Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.[[labelnote:Lat.]]If you had been silent, you would have remained a philosopher.[[/labelnote]]
->'''Hacker''': What does that mean?
->'''Humphrey''': If you'd kept your mouth shut we might have thought you were clever.
-->-- ''Series/YesPrimeMinister''
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quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum.''[[labelnote:Lat.]]"I will assfuck and skullfuck you, you cocksucker Aurelius and you faggot Furius! You who think because my poems are sentimental, that I have no shame.'' Latin ClusterFBomb-ing at its finest.[[/labelnote]]

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quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum.''[[labelnote:Lat.]]"I will assfuck and skullfuck you, you cocksucker bottom Aurelius and you faggot Furius! You who think because my poems are sentimental, that I have no shame.'' Latin ClusterFBomb-ing at its finest.[[/labelnote]]
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quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum.''[[labelnote:Lat.]]"I will assfuck and skullfuck you, you queer Aurelius and you faggot Furius! You who think because my poems are sentimental, that I have no shame.'' Latin ClusterFBomb-ing at its finest.[[/labelnote]]

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quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum.''[[labelnote:Lat.]]"I will assfuck and skullfuck you, you queer cocksucker Aurelius and you faggot Furius! You who think because my poems are sentimental, that I have no shame.'' Latin ClusterFBomb-ing at its finest.[[/labelnote]]
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->''You must say things\\
Like micturate, defecate, intercourse\\
You can't say things\\
Like pissing and shitting and fuck\\
Although they're the same\\
Although it's a pain\\
You've got to use the Latin name''
-->--''Music/TheAmateurTransplants'', ''Dorsal Horn Concerto''

->''"Okay, it's in Latin, so don't laugh. It's supposed to sound like this."''
-->-- '''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'''

->''"Centaurum iacio!"''[[labelnote:Lat.]]"I throw the Centaur".[[/labelnote]]
--> --'''[[MartyStu Erik Servint]]''', in ''[[WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum Susan's Sorcerer]]'', magically throwing a disguised Agent against a large cauldron.

->''Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo,\\
Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi,\\
qui me ex versiculis meis putastis,\\
quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum.''[[labelnote:Lat.]]"I will assfuck and skullfuck you, you queer Aurelius and you faggot Furius! You who think because my poems are sentimental, that I have no shame.'' Latin ClusterFBomb-ing at its finest.[[/labelnote]]
--> --'''Gaius Valerius Catullus'''

%%->"Ten years ago, if you had mentioned the words “Manei Domini” to anyone, you could expect either a confused head-tilt reaction or a correction for your bad Latin."\\
%%-- on the [[KnightTemplar Word of Blake]]'s [[SuperSoldier Manei Domini]] in ''Franchise/BattleTech'' after the organization went [[MoralEventHorizon off the ]][[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope deep end]]

->Sometimes you’re queueing at a petrol station at 3:00A.M. in the morning, and there’s a line of murderers behind you, and you turn around and go, ''"Amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant!"'' and they go, ''"Fuck, he knows Latin! He knows a dead language! Run!"''
-->-- '''Creator/EddieIzzard''', ''Definite Article''

-> ''"And the Romans did all this with a language that we know from school is silly. It's a silly billy language. It has a nominative, a vocative, accusative, a genitive, a dative and ablative-- fuck off!''"
-->-- '''Creator/EddieIzzard''', ''Stripped''

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