A Little Latin Lesson: "Lustrum"

[Johnny McCrae]

I used to be an Altar Boy when I was in grade school. We had to memorize the prayers in Latin. Never knew what they meant.

[Professor Marvel]

Deacon & Johnny
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Johnny - i can relate! For some odd reason "they" never seemed to think it was important for the Altar Boys or the Choir to understand what we were saying....

Aaaaand back then we did not have google to help us. Had to rely either on the other kids in Latin class (if you trusted them) or the Latin Teacher. Somehow the Sky Pilots were too swamped with other important stuff.

Yhs
praeceptor miraculum

More later

[Professor Marvel]

Ave, Imperator, morituri te salutant
  Hail, Emperor, those who are about to die salute you
  Well known gladiator phrase attributed to a mock naval event in the coloseum presided over by Claudius.

Panem et circenses
  Bread and circuses
From Satire X by Juvenal:
" Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses"

Carpe diem
Carpe noctem
  sieze the day, sieze the night

Amor vincit omnia
  Love Conquers All
  From a buncha poems called Eclogues By Virgil

Cogito ergo sum
  "I think, therefore I am"
  the "first principle" of René Descartes's philosophy. First lublished in french, later in latin.

In vino veritas
  in wine, there is truth',
   Often attributed to Pliny the Elder, suggesting a person under the influence of alcohol is more likely to speak their hidden thoughts.


Caeruleum calamum est in mensa
  The blue pen is on the table ... one of my little jokes

Sic transit gloria mundi
  Often translated as "All glory is fleeting" but literally literally "Thus passes the glory of the world".
  I got this one from the Movie "Patton" which I saw whilst still in high school and it stuck with me.

Yhs
praeceptor miraculum