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27th January 15, 10:09 PM
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Concerning mottoes
I have noticed that some members may use or wish to use Latin in mottoes when making a coat of arms. I am willing to help with translations and checking translations if needed. I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in Latin, so I am qualified! 
If the thread is inappropriate, please delete. Anyway, offering my services if anyone in heraldry wishes to utilize them!
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28th January 15, 12:15 AM
#2
OKSooner , that is a very kind and generous offer . Truly in the spirit of XMarks . I'm sure your knowledge will be sought .
Best to you , Mike
Mike Montgomery
Clan Montgomery Society , International
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28th January 15, 05:43 AM
#3
Thank you for the offer. I have found five different crests for my own family (three with different mottos) and only one in Latin. I may PM you to explore the others.
"Round Tuits" are hard to come by some days.
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28th January 15, 10:40 AM
#4
I can't help but be reminded of the scene from "Life of Brian", where the roman guard (Cleese) "helps" Brian (Chapman) with his latin "Romans go home!"
KEN CORMACK
Clan Buchanan
U.S. Coast Guard, Retired
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, USA
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28th January 15, 11:30 AM
#5
ROMANI ITE DOMUM! - Life of Brian. That is such a funny movie. Sadly, I have seen some times when someone tattooed Latin on themselves without checking words or grammar. A woman who refers to herself as her own hero used the masculine participles and word for "hero", which also means "man." Another person tattooed "flies with her own wings" on her foot but actually used the word for pigs rather than "with her own." Those words are similar, and she got the same case, so it ended up as "flies with pigs with wings."
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17th August 15, 11:03 AM
#6
 Originally Posted by OKSooner
ROMANI ITE DOMUM!
Not to take "Life of Brian" tooooo seriously, but I've been told that this doesn't quite mean what it's supposed to mean. When Brian said "Romans, go home!" he meant back to Rome, to their own country. But "Romani ite domum" would mean "Romans, go back to your house."
Does "domus" in Latin have the same connotation as "home" in English, of something more than a physical house?
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28th January 15, 12:16 PM
#7
A very kind offer indeed, OKSooner.
At the same time, Latin is not compulsory for armorial mottoes. Mine is in English (and very nearly was in German). Some Scots mottoes are in Gaelic, others in Scots, and some even in Norman French.
The first three schools I attended all had Latin mottoes, though:
Semper Sursum
Nil Nisi Optimum
Virtute et Opera
Regards,
Mike
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life.
[Proverbs 14:27]
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28th January 15, 03:49 PM
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I'm really not making fun of your very generous offer, but my favorite "Latin" motto is "Illegitimus non carborundum".
Geoff Withnell
"My comrades, they did never yield, for courage knows no bounds."
No longer subject to reveille US Marine.
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