queensthief | sounis, can we play a game? (games are fun)

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let's play a guessing game, everyone! (aka latin's getting on my nerves -- pronouns are insufferable -- so i'm finding something (semi)-useful to do with my latin textbook)

no latin students allowed.
that would be cheating, obviously. :)
and no google. obviously i can't check that you didn't use it, but that just takes the fun out of it, so. ON WITH THE SHOW.

is my excessive enthusiasm annoying you yet?
um, these phrases all have something to do with the books and/or the characters, and that's the only hint i shall give, because psssshaw latin and english are close enough anyways. it'll be fun. :) and winners will get an icon or a banner or something, to be specified later (and made after my chem test next monday, because studying will get me into princeton and then i won't die on the streets, homeless, because i am a failure, right? :D).

1. experientia docet stultos - think the attolia court in koa
2. multum in parvo -think gen and irene's love
3. formosa facies muta commendatio est - something that reminds me of irene (think nahueresh)
4. palma non sine pulvere - and how. think of "stealing peace." think also of "she is treasure beyond any price" (i don't have the book with me at the moment)
5. accipere quam facere iniuriam praestat - ouch, that stings, gen. this one's a toughie, so - it's from cicero, and a reference to the hand choppy offy bit of their history.
6. dum spiro, spero - the annotation at the bottom is scarily close to a line in the book. a line we often quote. think mountains, qoa, and proposals. [drashizu , ilonaotus ]
7. equo ne credite - okay, so it's referencing something else entirely, but it fits gen to a "t" in regards to...(obviousness. come on. look at the words). [kaeyko ]
8. non omne quod nitet aurum est - tolkien. helen! and sometimes gen. (if no one gets this, i will be shocked.) [drashizu ]
9. revocated animos, maestumque timorem mittite - what gen should do a few months after the handy choppy offy bit.
and finally!
10. possunt quia posse videntur - gengengengen gen x 10000. [openedlocket ]

and there we have it. ballpark translations are fine, there's one icon (banner, i guess, if you want one or the other) per question, so you don't have to get all of them correct.
um, sorry for the gen & irene overkill. :( i have a fondness for the two and so, it seems, does my textbook. i was thinking of putting dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, but it's pretty famous and pretty much applies to the eddisian soldiers as well as the attolians. and teleus. and relius. and gen. but not nahuseresh.

pssst, question. what should i tag this? :)
have...fun?
i'm going to post this before i convince myself this is a horrible idea.

EDIT: if you've got something right (see up top) and were the first to get it correct, message me. :) if you want my crappily made icons (just kidding. they're okay. not like, ohfreckle , but not horrendous).

1. experience teaches fools.
2. much in little.
3. a pleasing countenance is a silent recommendation.
4. no prize without a struggle (lit. "no palm without dust," which refers to the palm branch given to winners of chariot races)
5. it is better to suffer a wrong than to do one.
6. where there's life, there's hope (also while i breathe, i hope, but the first is better for our game because it's closer to the book :D)
7. do not trust the horse.
8. all is not gold that glitters (all that is gold does not glitter is a reference to lotr if you didn't catch that, and you better have ;D)
9. recall your courage and banish gloomy fear
10. they can because they think they can.