#found latin

Imago dei. The image of God. Can I get an amen?

“…ut, verbi gratia, vinum ordinatur tanquam in proprium et principalem usum in ipsum potum, quia talis usus debetur ei secundum suam naturam. Potest insuper ordinari in commutacionem alterius rei que est magis necessaria ei est ipsum vinum vel propter sublevandam eius necessitatem, vel propter conservandam eius honestatem. Si quis ergo ordinat vinum in aliquem alium usum propter suam cupiditatem vel maliciam, ipse quidem vinum distrahit et eo abutitur, et per consequens agit viciose.”

Note the truncation on "magnū" for the accusative singular of "magnum." I wonder if a better reading of "licet occupet" would be "permitted to seize or control" the world, based on the accompanying engraving. A nice reminder that parcere takes a dative and that licet can introduce a subjunctive. The image comes from Johann Theodore de Bry's late 16th century Emblemata Secularia. Thanks to @libroantguo for sharing this on Twitter!

"ARS" "Skill" Having suffered through a sewer back up last fall, in our new home, I can say that having a cleanup and restoration company with "skill" is highly desirable.

"SCIENTIA POTENTATUS EST" "Knowledge is power" Potentatus, a nice masculine fourth declension noun, does mean "power". Making this technically correct. Potentatus, however, seems to be very uncommon in Classical Latin, appearing only once each in Cicero, Caesar, and Livy according to the Lewis and Short. A PHI Latin (latin.packhum.org) search only comes up with Caesar and Livy, plus an example from Justinian. Some of us might be more comfortable with the more popular "potentia", as in "Scientia potentia est." H/t to Thomas Schmid (@th_schmid) via Twitter for this found Latin.

"CARBE DIEM" A punny take on Horace' "carpe diem," ("seize the day"), in Odes 1.11. H/t to Sally Partridge, @sapartridge, for sharing this on Twitter.

"Stemus simul" - the Kane family motto Translated here in DC Comics' Detective Comics #935 (2016) as "we stand together." But this appears to be a victim of Google translate. "Stemus simul" would be better translated as "let us stand at the same time." Simul leans toward a temporal meaning, rather than emphasizing a physical unity, which it seems to me was the meaning the writer, James Tynion IV, was aiming for here. Something like "stemus ad unum," "let us stand as one," would seem more likely in Latin. The use of the independent subjunctive "stemus" also seems off to me. Yes, it works as a jussive, "let us stand," but a straight up indicative would be better. "Stamus ad unum," "We stand as one," has more impact, being a factual statement (we do stand together and implies we always have) rather than the weaker command implied by the jussive, which reads to me as "hey, it would be great if we could stand united from here on out." Or are we to go further into the hypothetical waters of the independent subjunctive and read this as a potential subjunctive, "we might stand together;" a deliberative subjunctive, "should we stand together?;" or an optative subjunctive, "if only we stand together...". Plugging the translation "we stand together" into Google translate suggests that this is how Tynion/DC arrived at "stemus simul".

"Usque ad Mor[tem] Bibendum" "Up to the time of death, there should be drink." Although, I'd guess it should really be something like "usque ad mortem bibendum vinum est," with a passive periphrastic construction. "Up to the time of death, wine must be drunk." From DC Comics Wonder Woman Rebirth #1. There's no obvious reason for this particular motto on a security access card in the comic. It doesn't really fit with the line below, "To Serve and [Protect]," as I assume it should read. The sentiment of "to serve and protect until death" would work well, but the "bibendum" throws quite a wrench in there.