Latin experts please help!

mmaci12969 · 8 Mar 2006 at 20:07

Hey,

Im hoping someone on these forums can help me out with this one. Im looking for a Latin translation of the following phrase ‘Live for the future not in the past’ Failing that perhaps a latin phrase that conveys a similar message. Also if anyone knows of any websites that contain latin phrases and the meanings behind them that would be fantastic too!

Many thanks for yer help.

crashuk · 8 Mar 2006 at 23:03

viva para el futuro no para el pasado.

Wryel · 8 Mar 2006 at 23:06

Audere-Est-Facere

Treefrog · 8 Mar 2006 at 23:07

Vive ad futurae non in historio?

It's been a while so I'm open to correction.

Treefrog · 8 Mar 2006 at 23:07

Wryel said:
Audere-Est-Facere

To dare is to do?

PardonTheWait · 8 Mar 2006 at 23:09

Livo for del futuro not foro del pasto

Treefrog · 8 Mar 2006 at 23:10

Mohinder said:
Livo for del futuro not foro del pasto

Isn't that a recipe?

Wryel · 8 Mar 2006 at 23:19

Treefrog said:
To dare is to do?

Something like that, its just the Spurs motto!

One More Solo · 8 Mar 2006 at 23:47

Treefrog said:
Vive ad futurae non in historio?

It's been a while so I'm open to correction.

I don't know if historio is a word.

Vive ad futurandum would be fine for the live for the future part, using futurandum expresses a much greater sense of purpose. I think that means (literally) "Live for the purpose of the about to be". Not sure about the second part though.

Ex-RoNiN · 8 Mar 2006 at 23:48

...et non en historiam :confused:

One More Solo · 10 Mar 2006 at 15:10

Thinking about it there's an ideal bit of Cicero that would do the trick. I'll get on the case.

Borris · 10 Mar 2006 at 15:16

Memores acti, prudentes futuri.

AICMFP

Sic · 10 Mar 2006 at 15:17

crashuk said:
viva para el futuro no para el pasado.

he said Latin not spanish. and you've just grabbed that from a translation site.

PeterNem · 10 Mar 2006 at 15:17

Caecillius est pater, Cerberus est canis tbh!

Borris · 10 Mar 2006 at 15:20

Sic said:
he said Latin not spanish. and you've just grabbed that from a translation site.

él latín dicho no español y usted acaba de asir eso de un sitio de la traducción.

Sic · 10 Mar 2006 at 15:23

Borris said:
él latín dicho no español y usted acaba de asir eso de un sitio de la traducción.

3 years ago, i'd have known exactly what you were talking about...now i have to google a whooooole bunch of words

Borris · 10 Mar 2006 at 15:26

Sic said:
3 years ago, i'd have known exactly what you were talking about...now i have to google a whooooole bunch of words

Or you could just whack what you said into Babelfish, and translate into Spanish

(My Spanish is muy rusty - I haven't used it for, well, since I need it to chat up the senoritas).

Sic · 10 Mar 2006 at 15:33

rusty spanish:

he said Latin not spanish. and you've just grabbed that from a translation site.

dijé latin, no espanol. y has lo tomado de un sitio de translación

posiblamente. quizás algo va a correctarme

Beansprout · 10 Mar 2006 at 15:38

What's this, then? People called Romanes, they go, the house?

Sic · 10 Mar 2006 at 15:42

Romanes eunt domus?

Romaní ite domum