Originally Posted by
Joseph McMillan
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?
To the best of my knowledge, it's used to refer mostly to the actual house and also to someone's family or members of their household. I can't recall a Latin author using it in prose for going to a city or in the way we use it in English. That said, there's a good chance that a poet could have used it that I cannot recall now.
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