Note to Self...

[lwood]

The next time I want to use walkyrja's quote:

"Gods are like cockroaches--you see one, there's a hundred more under the fridge!"

I might be better to whip it around Jungian style, as discovered in an icon college roommate camwyn made of our mutual Classics professor:

"Vocatus atque non vocatus, deus aderit."

Strictly translated, it says, "Called or not called, god is present". Karl Jung had it engraved above the door of his home, although he was quoting Erasmus's citation of a Delphic oracle, which amuses me in a European Tour sort of way.

Besides, as everyone knows, Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur^†.

;)

-- Lorrie (next stop: how do I say that in Old Norse?)

^†Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur

"Whatever is said in Latin, sounds profound."--because it's just mean to throw down in a foreign tongue and not translate. Jakob Grimm, Saint Hilda, I am talking to you.

Comments

[dasubergeek.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't speak Old Norse, but I can give you Modern Icelandic which could give you a good jumping-off point...

Hvaðeina á fornnorsk er sagt, spekinglegur virðist.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks!

-- Lorrie

[dasubergeek.livejournal.com]

Alea jacta est, etc.