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#158041 - 03/29/06 08:23 PM Jam Arsa Mentvla Frigesco
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Ergo merda stercissima atque micturio hominium sum.

Hyokheutes Mesembrinos. 1369. Homunculus humilis atque anserculus.

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#158042 - 04/01/06 06:50 PM So what's your point?
wofahulicodoc Online content
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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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#158043 - 04/02/06 02:01 PM Re: a point
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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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#158044 - 04/02/06 02:03 PM Re: a point
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> shouldn't stercissima be stercorissima?

if you don't know...
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#158045 - 04/02/06 03:47 PM Re: a point
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This is all very interesting. What does it mean?

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Just Another Effin' Lack-Latin


Edited by inselpeter (04/02/06 03:48 PM)
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#158046 - 04/24/06 11:05 AM Re: Jam Arsa Mentvla Frigesco
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¿Und?

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#158047 - 04/24/06 11:56 AM Re: Jam Arsa Mentvla Frigesco
zmjezhd Offline
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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.
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