Thursday, March 31, 2011

Berkeley = Persian Army

I miss the inspiring quotes from my Latin classes in high school.  They are easily the most influential classes I've taken, even after 4 years at Berkeley.  I still have my notebook and might post a few occasionally. Yeah I'm a nerd! whatever.

Heres one that you might remember in the movie, "300."  Its appropriate for my last month and a half at Berkeley cause its gonna suck. (and I ate a Persian Burger at Bongo Burger today so I thought of it. haha)

Latin:
    Persian: caellum propter numerum sagittarum non videbitis
    Spartan: in umbria igitur pugnabimus.
    et Leonidas exclamat: pugnate magnis cum animis, Lacedaemonii; hodie apud inferos furtasse cenabimis!


Translation:
    Persian: You shall not see the sky because of the number of arrows.
    Spartan: Then we shall fight in the shade
    And Leonidas yelled: Fight with great spirit, Lacedaemonians; Today perhaps we shall dine in the house of the dead!


Right now there are a lot of arrows, but I'm still fighting! 45ish more days.
THIS IS SPARTAA!

se succiderit de genu pugnat 
     If he falls down, he fights on his knees.
                                                           -Seneca



Monday, March 28, 2011

“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.”
-Mark Twain