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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 01:43:46 · 4 answers · asked by TPCAN 3 in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

4 answers

Odi omnes = I hate you all

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

Edit: I thought about leaving out the 'help' part of the sentence, but decided it should be there - and then had to figure out how to translate it. Decided objective genitive fit best. And yes, 'odi' should have been at the end - but I was thinking of Catallus's Odi et Amo and stuck the "Odi" in first.

2007-04-20 10:48:44 · answer #1 · answered by dollhaus 7 · 1 1

"I hate you all" can be done is a few ways, depending on the sense you want:

vos odi (I hate you-plural. Simple and to the point).
quemque vestrum odi (I hate each one of you. Addresses a group of individuals collectively.)
vos omnes odi (I hate you all. Has more of a sense of hating the group that the previous option)
omnes odi (I hate everyone. Also simple, may not be exactly what you have in mind if the speaker is addressing specific people)

preces meas neglexistis (You-plural disregarded my prayers-in the sense of entreaties in classical Latin)

As always, translating from English to Latin isn't taught much these days and so is fraught with peril. If you want to use any of these, especially in a paper for a teacher who can read Latin, I'd suggest you find someone to check my work.

Edit: I see that great minds think alike. I "neglected" the for help part of the second sentence, since it seems a bit redundant to me. Also, my general impression is that Latin tends to like the verbs at the end of the sentence. While working on the first part I had Horace's "Persicos odi" running through my head...odi, odisse isn't a verb I've run across too often :)

2007-04-20 11:15:32 · answer #2 · answered by Geoff 3 · 0 0

veni,vedi,venci,

I went, I shopped, I returned

2007-04-24 00:29:24 · answer #3 · answered by witnessprotectionprogram 5 · 0 0

Y dont you download the software for that?
Ok get it from here
http://www.quicklatin.com/

2007-04-20 01:54:20 · answer #4 · answered by Rahul D 4 · 0 3

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