How do I explain this? It basically says nothing. It is a series of words that do not hang together. It is particularly strange because the first two words, correctly inflected, would form one of the most famous Latin quotations in existence, Vae uictis. (Supposedly spoken by a victorious Gaulish chieftain to a Roman who complained that the Gauls were cheating on the weights to measure their ransom, it means more or less, "If you have been beaten, we can do what we like to you." Inevitably, a Roman general then appears on the scene, leading an army, and trashes the Gauls thoroughly - teaching a lesson in keeping your word.) The other three words cannot be turned into any kind of sentence; the closest you can get to what the twerpi maximi wanted is "pro acolytibus omnia plaudita". As vatesudunis rightly said, the use of "ut" is particularly insane.
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Date: 2006-10-18 12:34 pm (UTC)