Latin for Looting

[quislibet]

Expanding on something from yesterday. I welcome constructive criticism.

The dead brigand has 300 gold pieces.

Praedoni mortuo sunt trecenti aurei.

(Literally, "To the dead brigand are three hundred gold coins.")

For other loot, just fill in the blanks! If the noun in column 2 is marked (f.), change mortuo to mortuae. If the noun in column four is singular, change sunt to est.

A single dead foe can have lots of different kinds of loot! Just add et ("and") before the last one. So if the dead brigand had 300 gold pieces and a small green gem, you say:

Praedoni mortuo sunt trecenti aurei et parva viridis gemma.

thief	latroni	small green gem	parva viridis gemma
wizard	mago	ten gold pieces	decem aurei
assassin	sicario	a Bag of Holding	saccus incantatus
knight	equiti	a vial of poison	phiala plena veneni
monster	monstro	two healing potions	duo potiones magicae salutares
prostitute	scorto	a gold bracelet	armilla aurea
farmer	agricolae	a Scroll of Protection from Evil	papyrus magicus ad malos arcendos
sorceress	veneficae (f.)	a silver ring	anulus argenteus
demon	daemoni	a jewelled necklace	monile gemmatum
nobleman	nobili	a Sword of Decapitation	gladius incantatus ad capita detruncanda
guard	custodi	a huge pearl	margarita ingens
priest(ess)	sacerdoti (m./f.)	spell books	libellae magicae
werewolf	versipelli	sixteen copper pieces	sedecim asses
giant	giganti	some cheese	aliquid casei
subterranean humanoid	subterraneo semihomini	the Eye of Vecna	oculus Vecnae

I'd say, yes, this is what I do when I'm by myself while the s.o. is off in Chicago for a few days, but really, I'd probably be doing it anyway. (It was even her suggestion to make this more "phrase-book" like with the fill-in-the-blank option.)

Comments

[lilithraevyn.livejournal.com]

I love you.

[jdm314.livejournal.com]

papyrus magicus ad malos arcendos

Just learned a great Greek word: ΑΛΕΞΙΦΑΡΜΑΚΟΣ (unfortunately, no Latin equivalent that I know of)


armilla auri
anulus argenti

We discussed the tension between the genitive and the adjective in email recently; these should definitely be done adjectivally.


sedecim assium

Why genitive?

[jdm314.livejournal.com]

Also:

scorto

Oh, so you have one of those campeigns, eh? Hmm, maybe you could compose a version of the Urban Random Encounters "prostitute" subtable from the original Dungeon Master's Guide. Offhand:

scortum, lupa, meretrix, mulier togata, paelex, proseda, moecha, leno, lena, scortator (and while we're at it, spintrio)

(Gosh, lots of Latin words for that ;) )

"Well, I'll be damned" and "Oops," respectively.

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

these should definitely be done adjectivally

I was prepared to disagree, as the "genitive of material" (in some books merged into an Attributive/Descriptive genitive) is often introduced with an example of an object made out of some metal or other (e.g. here (http://www.uark.edu/depts/latin/case.html) -- but I can't find classical examples of this for "gold" and "silver" in the TLL; it's nearly always aureus and argenteus (with, e.g., ex auro a somewhat distant runner-up) -- unless we're talking about a pondus auri, which is a bit different, although it falls under the general category of Attributive/Descriptive. -- And on second look the example in Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer, obtorti circulus auri, has an extra adjective in play, which complicates it. So in this instance anyway we must go with your damn adjectives. ;)

Possibly if I'd made the ring gold I would have automatically done so, as anulus aureus is practically a set phrase.

(Incidentally, while looking into this I found a medieval Latin treasure list quoted in a role-playing-game context here (http://www.griffingrove.com.au/cms/htdocs/cms/Latin/339/), which I offer not as a model of Latinity but because it's kinda interestin'.)

Anyway. As for assium, that was my 2:30-a.m. brain recalling nummorum and sestertium, but forgetting the understood milia part.

Re: "Well, I'll be damned" and "Oops," respectively.

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

1:13-a.m. brain. Whatever.