The school where I work has annoyed me for the umpteenth time, so I want to come up with a motto.
I was thinking: Excellence in mediocrity!
Translation: Virtus in mediocrium.
Would that be correct?
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Señor,
uirtus is a good word for excellence, I think. Mediocrity would, however, be translated directly into mediocritas... I am not sure you might not want to use in with the ablative here. But perhaps you could just as well connect the two words by a genitive: uirtus mediocritatis. If you want to modify the mediocritatis by an adjective, in the genitive of course, you could put that in front of uirtus.
I like the idea of this new 'motto'
uirtus is a good word for excellence, I think. Mediocrity would, however, be translated directly into mediocritas... I am not sure you might not want to use in with the ablative here. But perhaps you could just as well connect the two words by a genitive: uirtus mediocritatis. If you want to modify the mediocritatis by an adjective, in the genitive of course, you could put that in front of uirtus.
I like the idea of this new 'motto'
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Thank you
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll make a sign now and hang it at my desk.