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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My Latin is very rusty. Is there anyone who
can help translate something for me? You might also find my attempts
amusing!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000 size=2>"The only way to be heard is to
scream; the only path to peace is the threat of war."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"... the only promise of peace ..." would work
equally well. The important parts are the "only", the "heard" vs "scream",
and the "peace" / "threat of war."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The context is the bureaucracy I work in.
Bureaucracy prevents me to providing an adequate service to the patients our lab
tests, and it's only when I start sending e-mails with red, bold, and/or
underlined text and with half my address book in the CC line to witness my
frustration that I actually get a response out of the
administration.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The best I can do is a very literal
translation:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>solus modus auditum esse quiritare
est; sola via ad pacem impendere bellum est.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There are probably various Latin idiomatic
expressions that I am not familiar with that would replace some of
that.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Another way would be, ironically, to copy the
grammar from the Prayer of St Francis:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>in quiritando audimur; pacem
impendendo bello acquirimus.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>[In screaming we are heard; we obtain peace by
the threat of war.]</EM> I assume quiritando would be in the form of
a gerund; impendendo in the form of an ablative gerundive?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stephen</FONT></DIV>
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