Latin quote for T-shirt
August 3, 2015 8:35 AM Subscribe
I teach an intensive summer Latin workshop. I want to get T-shirts made for my students with a Latin quote/design. Ideas?
This workshop takes students from zero knowledge of Latin to reading texts in a few weeks. It's an intense but rewarding experience, and I'm looking for a quote that reflects -- hopefully in a funny way! -- both the ordeal they've gone through and the skills they've attained. (Virgil and Cicero are the authors we've read the most of, so bonus points if it's from one of them, but it doesn't have to be.) An accompanying Roman-themed image would be great too. Classicists of MeFi, throw some ideas at me?
This workshop takes students from zero knowledge of Latin to reading texts in a few weeks. It's an intense but rewarding experience, and I'm looking for a quote that reflects -- hopefully in a funny way! -- both the ordeal they've gone through and the skills they've attained. (Virgil and Cicero are the authors we've read the most of, so bonus points if it's from one of them, but it doesn't have to be.) An accompanying Roman-themed image would be great too. Classicists of MeFi, throw some ideas at me?
Someone came into my workplace with a t-shirt saying (in Latin) "If you can read this you're overeducated."
At the time we had an employee who had studied Latin, and who had to explain his sudden laughing fit.
posted by Chuckles McLaughy du Haha, the depressed clown at 8:55 AM on August 3, 2015
At the time we had an employee who had studied Latin, and who had to explain his sudden laughing fit.
posted by Chuckles McLaughy du Haha, the depressed clown at 8:55 AM on August 3, 2015
"Ad astra per aspera" perhaps.
posted by misterbrandt at 9:07 AM on August 3, 2015
posted by misterbrandt at 9:07 AM on August 3, 2015
My wife took an intensive course and her shirt was classic tilework of a mouse and the line "Even the Mice Eat Iron"
posted by nickggully at 9:10 AM on August 3, 2015
posted by nickggully at 9:10 AM on August 3, 2015
Response by poster: I like BibiRose's "forsan et haec...". (I'd forgotten about that line but kept thinking of "Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem", which isn't quite right...) I'll quite likely go with that, but would love to hear more suggestions. And if I do go with that, any ideas for an image to accompany it? The line means "Maybe someday even this will be pleasant to recall".
posted by hoist with his own pet aardvark at 9:14 AM on August 3, 2015
posted by hoist with his own pet aardvark at 9:14 AM on August 3, 2015
Well MYYYY Latin shirt says "quid gnomen tibi est?" With a picture of a gnome. YMMV.
posted by rubster at 9:46 AM on August 3, 2015
posted by rubster at 9:46 AM on August 3, 2015
I used to have a pair of knickers that said "Semper ubi sub ubi". Latin joke gold.
posted by Elly Vortex at 10:01 AM on August 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Elly Vortex at 10:01 AM on August 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
"I speak Latin and you don't"
...in Latin obviously.
posted by Naberius at 10:31 AM on August 3, 2015
...in Latin obviously.
posted by Naberius at 10:31 AM on August 3, 2015
Response by poster: BWA, that's a great image -- do you know if it's in the public domain?
posted by hoist with his own pet aardvark at 3:24 PM on August 3, 2015
posted by hoist with his own pet aardvark at 3:24 PM on August 3, 2015
Wow, googling for Latin/classics major t-shirts turns up a lot of crap! What we usually did for our annual classics club shirt was just use an inscription-type font for the quotation, adding the year in Roman numerals, and maybe the name of the program. Make it so the lettering covers a lot of the shirt, and use a color that looks Roman. You could put the first part of the quotation on the front, and the rest on the back. Some of those downloadable fonts don't look too bad. (I searched "Roman inscription font.")
Alternatively, there are a lot of images of Aeneas's ship that would fit well on a shirt, or use a coin image.
posted by BibiRose at 3:55 AM on August 4, 2015
Alternatively, there are a lot of images of Aeneas's ship that would fit well on a shirt, or use a coin image.
posted by BibiRose at 3:55 AM on August 4, 2015
Si sapis, sis apis, with an obvious image. (Aaaaand, we've hit the wall of my knowledge of Latin.)
posted by bryon at 4:07 AM on August 4, 2015
posted by bryon at 4:07 AM on August 4, 2015
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posted by BibiRose at 8:41 AM on August 3, 2015 [2 favorites]