What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
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What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" on jraef's posts mean?
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What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
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RE: What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
Oops! Wrong dictionary! :)
Here's what I find....
Which translates to: "Sell at a price lower than it used to be not being vigilant about flaying the wasted population."
Works for me...
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venditio : sale / closing of a bargain
de : (prep. + abl.) down from, from, concerning, about.
olim : at that time, formerly, once, for a long time now.
vipera: ??
non : not.
vigilo : to be awake, watch, be vigilant / to keep vigil.
excorio : to shave / scalp, flay / oppress / peel
populatio : devastation, wasting / population
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RE: What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
jraef:
Last word: My signature line is (questionable) latin for "Snake oil peddlers cannot exist without an ignorant populace". That is because I have seen a lot of this sort of thing start happening with our flourishing internet and I want people to just think before they buy.
Hah! My last def really wasn't off by a lot..
RE: What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
RE: What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
I hate it when that happens.
RE: What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
It really galls when one of us has spent a bunch of time clearly spelling out our response only to find someone else hit all the high points in a short quickie.
RE: What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
Mike Halloran
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RE: What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
Yah, well for me it's typing fast AND accurately is hard!
RE: What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
I have since changed my sig. line. I had a number of "latin-a-philes" tell me I was all wet, since I used a direct translation of English in an American phrased coloquialism and that was not really proper for translating, and I would need to consider the phraseology that the Romans would have used in their own times...blah blah blah.
Can't please everyone.
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."
Nikola Tesla
RE: What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
Hmmm well the skewed definition of "populatio" is [devastation, wasting / population]
which sounds like a government sorta wasting it's population but heck, the general population will waste itself given the opportunity!!
Ever watch Jay Leno's "Street walking" amazing... the people he corners on the street are literally beyond stupid!! Who's the president right now? "umm, well, I, um, daaaahh, I don't know.." <= def: wasted!
:)
pennpoint; You are sure correct there. Every time I type something I go back and check it. Some of the stuff is astonishing. I think I'm wasted sometimes! I have triple typed words, correctly typed words that never came to mind, etc., etc.
RE: What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
RE: What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
I do agree.
RE: What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
He only saw one girl who had no clue. He saw her clip later the next night on the show, and he thought she was NOT faking it because there was a lot of other stuff he had asked that didn't make it on the air.
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."
Nikola Tesla
RE: What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
Just tell the latinophiles that you are writing in Modern Roman, not ancient Roman.
RE: What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
RE: What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
I have been outside the reach of internet for a few days so I couldn't try my linguistic skills on jraef's line - and I'm sure glad that I didn't.
Anyhow. Your guess seems to be at least as good as anyone else's. And that is typical of latin. I had a friend that tried studying latin but he returned to mathematics after having found that a text that he thought was about wine-making in old Rome actually was about bringing elephants over the alps.
Many years later, I heard someone say that "latin is the mathematics for those who can't do mathematics" - and that do not bother much about the result, I would like to add.
Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
RE: What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
RE: What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
RE: What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
RE: What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
skogsqurra; Hah! Everyone shoulda tried, it would have proven your adroit point about Latin/math..
RE: What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
RE: What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
RE: What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
RE: What does "Venditori de oleum-vipera non vigere excordis populi" mean?
Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org