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Does anyone know what Salutamus ti Mortatuum means?
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I can't give the quotation accurately either, but the original meant something like "We who are about to die, salute you!"
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A salute given to the Caesar by Gladiators before The Games began.
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AVECÆSARMORITVRITESALVTANT  Apparently, something like, "Hail, Caesar, men doomed to die salute thee."
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Morituri = from morior, mori (die, expire, wither away, pass away, fail, decay).
Morituri is the future accusitive plural so in the context of "morituri te salutant" could be translated as "Those about to die", but knowing the Roman penchant for mordant (sic) humour, it could equally well be translated as "The living dead".
Someone whose knowledge of Latin is less rusty than mine may beg to differ authoritatively!
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"Those about to die"
That's how I had always thought it was rendered. Since my own Latin stops at "ave", I was surprised when a dictionary listing of famous non-English phrases rendered it "men doomed to die."
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But didn't some live to fight another day?
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Oh, without running away that is!
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In those games in the Colosseum, there was no place to run to.And those who won, had to fight and probably die in the next Games.
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The champ gladiator won 21 consecutive games. (ask me a anything about Rome and I can answer it. I'm an expert on Rome)  -Scott
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Well actually, he won two and a half thousand. (21  ) -Scott
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