Expert: Maria - 6/12/2006

Question
Could you please translate these quotes into Latin it would be greatly appreciated!

"Intellegance to become great"

"With wings may I face evil"

and one last one

"May innocent tears cure all"

If you could please help me out with this I would be greatly appreciative!  My cousin is trying to help with the rest I am doing in Latin!  I'm trying to write some sort of poem!  Thank you for your time and help!

Answer
Hello,

"Intelligence to become great" can be translated as follows, according to its real meaning:

1-“Ingenium quod ad  gloriam ducit “, if  you refer to the capacity to acquire  knowledge and become famous.

2-“ Facultas crescendi”, if  you refer to the capacity to develop and reach maturity.

As for "With wings may I face evil", I can translate only ‘May I face evil”, while “with wings” would have no sense in Latin, in this context at least.
So, here’s the translation of  “May I face evil”:

-“Utinam malo resistam”.


Finally "May innocent tears cure all" is in Latin:

-“Utinam omnia innocentes curent lacrimae », if ‘all’  means ‘all things’, of course.


Best,
Maria
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NOTA BENE
Intelligence = INGENIUM / FACULTAS
to become great = QUOD AD GLORIAM DUCIT / CRESCENDI

‘May= UTINAM
I face = RESISTAM (optative subjunctive)
Evil = MALO(dative case)

May = UTINAM
innocent = INNOCENTES
tears = LACRIMAE
cure = CURENT (optative subjunctive)
all = OMNIA (neuter plural)

As you can see, in Latin word order  is different from English and can be variable, according to writing style of an author.