SS2 Latin inscription

[67510b52a4a57Rainalkar]

When you start the game, after you choose career type, there are a few doors with latin inscriptions on them. Anyone knows what it means?

[67510b52a4c53Kolya]

Can you give an example maybe? I don't remember those.

[67510b52a4df2ZylonBane]

That's a SHTUP thing. One of the original UNN door textures had what appeared to be small type on them, but it was utterly illegible. So I Googled around until I found a Latin expression which was about the right length and sort of made sense for the UNN. The text reads:

"Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel equissimo sit potior"

Which translates to:

"Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war"

[67510b52a4f61Nameless Voice]

I can't help but think that there should be a 'not' in there somewhere, but there isn't.  I guess either the Romans like their wars, or I'm too dense to undestand that sentence.

It is apparently spelled 'aequissimo', though.

[67510b52a5288ZylonBane]

I can't help but think that there should be a 'not' in there somewhere, but there isn't.

"Scarcely".

And oops about the spelling error. Must have been spelled wrong in the source I copied it from.

[67510b52a53a1Nameless Voice]

I still understand that as "There is definitely not ever a peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war.", which doesn't make sense to me.  I would have assumed "There is definitely not ever a peace so unjust that it is worse than even the fairest war."

[67510b52a5472Rainalkar]

Thanks, and I agree with the just above logically, but considering UNN's nature, it could be the opposite.

[67510b52a5551ZylonBane]

You guys may be on to something. I'm finding some conflicting translations of that phrase.

[67510b52a5635Kolya]

It's from Erasmus from Rotterdam's text: "Querela pacis". I'm sure there are trustworthy translations around.

[67510b52a571bOmegaFireX]

Wasn't it Tacitus?
In a loading screen of Rome: Total War there's a quote from him saying: "A bad peace is worse than war." Or something like that.