Nice Puzzles in Latin

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I found this really nice site with some Latin puzzles and rebuses. Some of you might have seen it but it’s worth posting anyway. These are two rebuses from the site, and pretty good ones, try to get the sentence.
The First one:

Another one:

More puzzles and stuff are there at http://www.archimedes-lab.org/latin.html.

Spoiler Warning: don’t go to the site before trying these rebuses because they have the answer written right below the puzzle, which spoils all the fun.

PS: Can anybody explain the last rebus to me (the one with two hands shaking each other), I didn’t get one word in it.

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PS: Can anybody explain the last rebus to me (the one with two hands shaking each other), I didn’t get one word in it.

Sol and La are European names for musical notes, aren’t they? (continental European I mean).

Fides sus ficit. Could sus mean above?

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Yes, I think even mediæval Latin, but …

Is that it? Or does it mean below? I couldn’t find sus in any (online)dictionary. That’s the part I didn’t understand.


Shanth

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In fact, sol and la are from mideval Latin. They derive from a Latin prayer to St John.

Interesting puzzles though!

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I don’t understand how those puzzles work :open_mouth: sus, suis means “sow” (a female pig).

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I didn’t get that one either, am still looking for an explanation for that, but I liked the others pretty much. Actually I’m a kind of puzzle freak, and if any of you know any other sources of any kind of puzzles in Latin(or any other language for that matter) I’d be interested. I do suppose there would be a huge corpus of word puzzles/riddles in Latin, considering how old the language is. Any knon collections or compilations of these?

Shanth[/quote]

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Sorry for the double post.

But,if by

you mean you didn’t understand how rebuses work in general, than its like this:

Words and/or symbols are written or arranged in a configuration such that when you describe the whole configuration and say it out in words, the whole thing forms a proverb, or just a simple phrase. eg.

STAND
I

becomes I under STAND ie. “I understand”.

The latin ones were quite simple,

is:
“Ter(Thrice) RA”, ES ET IN “ter RAM" "I bis(twice)”
judicial grouping gives “Terra es et in Terram ibis”.

Hope that was not as incoherent and unhelpful as my explanations ofen are. Some moderately ok rebuses are at http://www.fun-with-words.com/rebus_puzzles.html if you are interested.

Shanth

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Oooh, I know what those are. Thanks for the explanation.

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Sorry, I didn’t know that you already knew. “I don’t understand how those puzzles work” seemed pretty ambiguous :confused: .

Shanth

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The webmaster of the ARCHIMEDIS’ LAB site was kind enough to reply to me and that is what he said.

Could someone here please explain this process of elision? Should I post this question in the Learning Latin forum or is it ok if I post it here. I am sorry if I posted it to the wrong forum, but I am new here so please correct me if I’m wrong.

Shanth