Re: Off-topic Latin request.

[Jim Gillogly <jim@xxxxxxx>]

Adams Douglas wrote:
> Forwarded message:
> > if you ever see a shirt that begins
> > "Catapultum Habeo" but translates
> > 'I have a catapult. Give me all the gold or I will hurl a rock at your head'
> > I want it! I lost mine, and its absense is felt sorely here. ;)

Just back from the Caribbean and catching up.  This is from Henry Beard's
"Latin for All Occasions" (Lingua Latina Occasionibus Omnibus), and comes out
as:

Catapultum habeo.  Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum
immane mittam.  (I have a catapult.  Give me all the money, or I will fling
an enormous rock at your head.)

Another catapult quote:
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultus haberunt.
When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults.

Carpe jugulum...
-- 
	Jim Gillogly
	19 Rethe S.R. 2000, 00:23
	12.19.7.0.9, 13 Muluc 17 Kayab, Ninth Lord of Night