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[The6thMessenger]

Hmm, so i'm looking at my King Crab, and i noticed the latin words.

"Vivat Rex" isn't really that hard to figure out, Long Live the King as i understood it. Not that im expert at latin, but i did encounter the other words and just figure the message together.

"Omnia Vincit Missilis" seems like an offshoot of "Labor Omnia vincit" which means "work conquers all". It might mean Missile conquers everything, or as Google Translate puts it, "throwing everything".

However i did stumbled across with a different quite with the lower missile-count, "Mitto Ergo Sum", wtf?

Google translate says that its I Am, therefore. Seriously wtf. Does it say "i am missile"? Individually, the "Ergo Sum" says 'therefore i am" which is a part of the known quote "I think therefore i am" "Cogito Ergo Sum". But "Mitto", which have different meanings like send, cast, hurl, release, discharge etc.

I don't get it, is it "Discharge therefore iam"?

Hey PGI, any chance you can explain this to me?

[RestosIII]

Maybe they basically mean "I lurm, therefore I am?"

Pretty good philosophy if I do say so myself.

[El Bandito]

It is not rare for people to goof up on translating Latin. Doubly so if it s PGI. Don't think too hard on it. I remember picking up some errors of their Liao/Kurita translations.

Edited by El Bandito, 25 November 2016 - 08:36 PM.

[FLG 01]

The6thMessenger, on 25 November 2016 - 08:29 PM, said:

I don't get it, is it "Discharge therefore iam"?

In this context it means to send, throw, hurl, cast, launch (Lewis&Short), and it is a common verb used in conjuction with pilum (javelin), hasta (spear), telum (missile) and other ancient ranged weaponry.
So the sentence reads: "I shoot, therefore I am".
You know, the Roman army did not say 'fire' when shooting their arrows.

Edited by FLG 01, 25 November 2016 - 08:50 PM.

[The6thMessenger]

FLG 01, on 25 November 2016 - 08:43 PM, said:

So the sentence reads: "I shoot, therefore I am".

... hmm how does that make sense? So it's an offshoot of "cogito ergo sum"?

Edited by The6thMessenger, 25 November 2016 - 08:54 PM.

[Pariah Devalis]

The6thMessenger, on 25 November 2016 - 08:53 PM, said:

... hmm how does that make sense? So it's an offshoot of "cogito ergo sum"?

"I shoot, therefore they are no longer" would be a more accurate quote on a mech.

[Bombast]

RestosIII, on 25 November 2016 - 08:33 PM, said:

Maybe they basically mean "I lurm, therefore I am?"

Pretty good philosophy if I do say so myself.

In this context (And using latin), they mean the 'old' defintion of a missile - Anything projected at speed. So it's actually 'I AC/20 Boat, Therefor I Am.'

[The6thMessenger]

Bombast, on 25 November 2016 - 09:07 PM, said:

In this context (And using latin), they mean the 'old' defintion of a missile - Anything projected at speed. So it's actually 'I AC/20 Boat, Therefor I Am.'

So essentially it's "i shoot, therefore i exist"?

[Snazzy Dragon]

This is part of why I love the Davion paint job much more


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Edited by Snazzy Dragon, 26 November 2016 - 07:30 AM.

[Barantor]

"Fire ze Missles!"

[Besh]

FLG 01, on 25 November 2016 - 08:43 PM, said:

In this context it means to send, throw, hurl, cast, launch (Lewis&Short), and it is a common verb used in conjuction with pilum (javelin), hasta (spear), telum (missile) and other ancient ranged weaponry.
So the sentence reads: "I shoot, therefore I am".
You know, the Roman army did not say 'fire' when shooting their arrows.

Depending on what time you are looking at (pre/post Marina reforms ), typically hastae, then pilae . Roman army and arrows...not so much rly . Maybe "I throw, therefore I am" ? But ofc, unless its an Urbie, KCrabs dont usually throw stuff around XD .

The Imperial Army did employ Archer Auxiliae, so yep, it was Roman Army allright . But Archery def. was not one of the pillars of success of the Roman Army through the Centuries .

Edited by Besh, 26 November 2016 - 01:39 PM.