[C18-L] Help with Latin translations

[Jonathan Lighter]

Thanks, Wilson.  Gotta get out the old _Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis_
(London: Bloomsbury, 2003).

"Dominus et Domina Dursley, quae vivebant in aedibus Gestationis Ligustrorum
numero quattuor signatis,..."

JL

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Definitely good enough for government work.
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> Back in that day, _concubitus_ may have been thought of as "lying
> together" and not as "copulation," but that's just a WAG on my part.
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> _Usque ad_ = "(all the way) up to," "even unto," like that.
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> -Wilson
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> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Joel S. Berson<Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > I would appreciate comments on whether my translations of the
> > following Latin phrases are sufficiently accurate.  Warning (or
> > teaser) -- X-rated content follows.
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> > "penetratio corporis" = penetration of the body.
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> > "fricatio usque ad effusionem seminis" = friction resulting in
> > emission of semen.
> >
> > "per modum concubitus" = in the manner of copulation.
> >
> > For the compulsive, these come from letters written in 1642 by
> > "reverend elders" of the Plymouth Colony to Gov. Bellingham of
> > Massachusetts, in response to his question about under what
> > circumstances acts of sodomy were capital offenses.  From William
> > Bradford, _Of Plymouth Plantation_, ed. Samuel Eliot Morison (Knopf,
> > 1952), pages 404 and 407.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Joel
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