20 Latin Phrases For The Modern World

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There are times when you are lost for words. When all you can do is stare dumb-founded and slack jawed at the world around you. It's times like this that you need a catchy phrase. A pithy bon mot. The retort to end all retorts.

Several years ago I came across a little book, tucked away in the corner of an old, dusty, second hand book shop. The book in question is X-treme Latin by Henry Beard and all credit for this list goes to him and his wonderful books, well worth searching out. Please note several of these phrases are not suitable for young children or people of innocent dispositions, but despite being over two thousands years old they still apply to our twenty-first century lives.

1. "Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus!" - You want a part of me? Bring it on!
2. "Currus magnus, mentula minuscula" - Big car, little dick.
3. "Meditare de hoc, amice" - Meditate on this, pal.
4. "Te amat Iesus - ceteri te putant irrumatorem" - Jesus loves you - everyone else thinks you're an asshole.
5. "Stipator stulus es optimatum!" - You're a right-wing moron!
6. "Pedisequus parasiticus es popularium!" - You're a liberal stooge!
7. "Mande merdam et morere" - Eat shit and die.
8. "Omes paucis annis prosedae erunt" - In a few years they will all be hookers.
9.  "Mox corvos pasces" - You're toast.
10. "Mater tua tam obesa est ut cum Romae est, urbs habet octo colles" - Your mother is so fat, when she's in town, Rome has eight hills.
11. "Ascervus inutilium est!" -It's a hunk of junk!
12. "Recuso reverenter ne respondeam, quia quicquid dicam id sit mendacium impudens" - I respectfully decline to answer on the grounds that anything I might say would be a bald faced lie. 
13. "Tu tibi futuendus (futendave) es" - It is required of you to go fuck yourself.
14. "Coleus" - Bollocks!
15. "Illuc ivi, illud feci" - Been there, done that.
16. "Basia baliliscum meum" - Kiss my basilisk.
17. "Vomiturus sum!" - I'm going to throw up.
18. "Adloquere manum. facies nescit quid velis" - Talk to the hand, the face don't understand. 
19. "Quid nobis infeliciter fieri potest?" - What could possibly go wrong? 
20. "Eice id ex animo" - Fuhgeddaboutit.

Twenty phrases that when applied at the exact right moment will leave the object of your dislike completely flabbergasted. After all, quid nobis infeliciter fieri potest?

Thanks for Reading

James