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I would like to use the sentences "I hate you all" and "you (plural) ignored my pleads for help" in Latin for the thesis of my Psychology paper on teen depression. How do you translate the previous two sentences into Latin?

2007-04-20 01:41:18 · 4 answers · asked by TPCAN 3 in Society & Culture Languages

4 answers

"Vos omnes odi" is "I hate you all"
"Meas deprecationes pro auxilio neglexistis" is "you (pl.)ignored my pleads for help"

Edit #1 -Below Caicos is right as to the use of the verb to translate "ignored" even if I would prefer using "neglego" instead of the similar "negligo" and then I've corrected my original sentence "Meas deprecationes pro auxilio ignoravistis".
However a disagree from the rest of his answer:
1.-He's not translating "I hate you all" but 2 separate parts.
I don't understand why.
2.- My dictionarry suggests to use "deprecatio" to translate
plea/entreaty/supplication; extenuation ;prayer to avert /ward off; invocation.
As to below suggested "preces"(from 'prex') it simply reads : prayer, request; prayer to God
3.- I think it's not too correct to use the
genitive "adiumentorum" to translate 'for help' since I feel in this phrasing 'for' is not to be understood as a specification but rather as the reason/the purpose of the pleads (and then it should be instead the ablative to be used).

2007-04-20 02:33:17 · answer #1 · answered by martox45 7 · 3 2

Odi omnes = I hate all
Vos odi = I hate you (pl)

Preces meas adiumentorum neglixistis = You ignored my pleas for help.

A form of ignorare has been suggested for 'ignored'. It's tempting to do that, but in Latin ignorare did not have the meaning 'ignore' does today. It means 'not to know; to be unacquainted; be ignorant; mistake; misunderstand'

2007-04-20 18:38:47 · answer #2 · answered by dollhaus 7 · 2 1

I hate you all- EGO contemno vos totus
you ignored my pleads for help- vos ignarus meus voluptarius pro succurro

2007-04-20 08:50:53 · answer #3 · answered by Eric 2 · 0 4

pitecanthropus erectus

2007-04-20 08:50:54 · answer #4 · answered by indonarto 2 · 0 4

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