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6751134696ae1Rainalkar

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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?
« Last Edit: 14. February 2008, 16:55:01 by Kolya »
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Can you give an example maybe? I don't remember those.

6751134696dcbZylonBane

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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"

6751134696f4cNameless Voice

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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.

67511346971a9ZylonBane

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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.

67511346972c4Nameless Voice

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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."

67511346973a3Rainalkar

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

6751134697488ZylonBane

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You guys may be on to something. I'm finding some conflicting translations of that phrase.
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It's from Erasmus from Rotterdam's text: "Querela pacis". I'm sure there are trustworthy translations around.

675113469766aOmegaFireX

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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.
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