Expert: Maria - 3/21/2009

Question
How would you translate the following into Latin:

To Seek and Destroy Our Enemies
or
To Seek and Destroy the Enemy

Answer
Hello,

“To Seek and Destroy Our Enemies” translates as follows into Latin:

-“Hostes consectari ac fundere”

As for "To Seek and Destroy the Enemy", it would be:

-"Hostem consectari ac fundere”

Regards,
Maria
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-To Seek = CONSECTARI (infinitive of the deponent verb CONSECTOR)

-and = AC

-Destroy= FUNDERE (infinitive of the verb FUNDO)

-Our Enemies/ the Enemy = HOSTES (direct object, accusative plural of HOSTIS, 3rd.declension). The possessive "our" is omitted in Latin./ HOSTEM (direct object, accusative singular of HOSTIS).