What do you make of this?

cobaltgrc · Post by **cobaltgrc** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:07 am

libertas est meum solum malum

???

nostos · Post by **nostos** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:32 am

liberty is merely my apple

(misfortune too but I like the first one better..)

bellum paxque · Post by **bellum paxque** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:50 am

Or "Liberty is my only mast."

-david

cobaltgrc · Post by **cobaltgrc** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:03 am

hehe, thanks guys.. I was trying to be clever with latin and it looks like it worked!

whiteoctave · Post by **whiteoctave** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:57 am

mast is malus.

~D

cobaltgrc · Post by **cobaltgrc** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:53 am

whiteoctave wrote:mast is malus.

and that would be masculine

I've also read that malum can be translated as 'hardship'.. so I also translated it as "Liberty is my only hardship" as well as "Liberty is my only apple". Though I liked Nostos' phrasing. "Liberty is merely my Apple"

bellum paxque · Post by **bellum paxque** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:28 am

mast is malus.

mea culpa! Thanks for the correction.

-David