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Carpe per diem: (*) motto of the self-employed consultant.
Variant: Ave, Imperator! Lucratori te salutant! (Hail, Caesar! We who are about to get rich, salute you!)
(*) Seize the paycheck.
The only one I remember from childhood is my father’s fondness for NON ILLEGITIMIS CARBORUNDUM, usually rendered as “Don’t let the bastards grind you down” (which a second year Latin pupil ought to be able to express more grammatically.)
my brother would quote this when he saw a pretty woman…
Vidi, vici, veni.
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Apparently, your brother was a cunning linguist.
I can’t remember how to write 1, 1000, 51, 6 and 500 in Roman numerals
I M LIVID
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