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#158041 03/30/06 01:23 AM
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Ergo merda stercissima atque micturio hominium sum.

Hyokheutes Mesembrinos. 1369. Homunculus humilis atque anserculus.

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That's something like "Therefore the foulest excrement and urine am I" ?

Is there a context we should be made aware of?

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Not quite sure if there is any context, but shouldn't stercissima be stercorissima? Latin stercus, (stercoris, 'dung'), is a third declension neuter noun, but I guess by a stretch and in a pinch, it could be adjectivified.


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> shouldn't stercissima be stercorissima?

if you don't know...


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This is all very interesting. What does it mean?

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Just Another Effin' Lack-Latin

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¿Und?

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¿Und?

As near as I can make it out.

Jam Arsa Mentvla Frigesco
Now I am chilled by a burning/flaming membrum virile.
But JAMF is also a well-known acronym, q.v.

Ergo merda stercissima atque micturio hominium sum.

Which, as I wrote earlier, should be:

Ergo merda stercorissima atque micturio hominium sum.
Therefore I am the filthiest dung and the urine of men.

Seems to be a play on Man is the measure of all things.

Hyokheutes Mesembrinos. 1369. Homunculus humilis atque anserculus.

This one took me a while, but it seems to be:

Greek huos 'pig, hog' + ?? okheutes 'lewd person, lecher'. And mesembrinos 'belonging to noontide; southern'. Lowly, little man and the gosling.

I was hoping Varaha would give us his translation, but he seems a tad shy.


Ceci n'est pas un seing.

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