Dishonored
Keller Nov 7, 2016 @ 6:15am
Dishonored 2 Latin poster
I need help from fans who knows Latin. Bethesda posted some photos of posters in the world of Dishonored 2. one of those posters is a newspaper but part of it is in Latin (it's not the same part as in English, i checked) the internet's translates engines are bad, anyone who knows Latin can please translate the text to English for all of the non-Latin-speaking fans?
link to the photo: https://images.contentful.com/rporu91m20dc/k23cClr2DeWCg4SUGg4kG/ddbd7ac55d3cdd37a47e3c2cc70699d3/Dishonored2_DunwallCourier_FULL.jpg

link to the article: https://bethesda.net/en/article/4fBGf2BIa4OougMCOMUsKw/dishonored-2-propaganda-and-advertisement-gallery
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bvguthrie Nov 7, 2016 @ 7:51pm 
I am working on this right now, but I've already figured out it's a pastiche from different Roman sources. I'll get back to this thread when I'm done.
Update: I studied Latin too long ago to be able to read it clearly, but when I looked at the poster, the Latin felt like Cicero to me. Having guessed it was a quotation from something famous, I started googling phrases, and found that the poster has quotes strung together from several different works. I apologize for the horrifically long links to follow, but in case you want to look things up yourself, I included them.
There appear to be five quotes, some of which are repeated. The first (which begins with "batnae municipium") is from a work by Ammianus Marcellinus which is quoted and translated here: https://books.google.com/books?id=E5yCAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA170&lpg=PA170&dq=batnae+municipium+in+anthemusia&source=bl&ots=wc7kPKgTuX&sig=y8LZ8UUm6a884gf5NlELaLxPsTg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjtl835n5jQAhWa2YMKHTmqB5UQ6AEIXDAJ#v=onepage&q=batnae%20municipium%20in%20anthemusia&f=false
The second (quanta autem) is from Cicero, as I had thought, and comes from De Amicitia: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0040%3Asection%3D20
The third (ego vero) comes from Cicero's De Provinciis Consularibus: https://books.google.com/books?id=O-VcBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA65&dq=ego+vero+sic+intellego+patres+conscripti&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwin_MGamZjQAhVB3mMKHQCMAvEQ6AEIGzAA#v=onepage&q=ego%20vero%20sic%20intellego&f=false
The fourth (iam in altera) comes from De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum: https://books.google.com/books?id=bhpCBxVwqJEC&pg=PA83&lpg=PA83&dq=auae+est+quaerendi+ac+disserendi&source=bl&ots=-HAWQSFPgJ&sig=a_lO6id_N5pQrEbVhdAKL4frzMk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwixq_j1nZjQAhUq04MKHbnjAisQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=auae%20est%20quaerendi%20ac%20disserendi&f=false
The fifth (iam virtutem) comes from De Amicitia again: http://www.latin.it/autore/cicerone/rhetorica/laelius_de_amicitia/021.lat
I haven't looked up translations for everything, but considering that a few of the Latin words appear to be misspelled, that quotes are repeated, and that the one translation linked first seems to have little to do with the game or its themes, I don't think they have great significance.
Last edited by bvguthrie; Nov 7, 2016 @ 8:27pm
Keller Nov 8, 2016 @ 1:19pm 
WOW thank you! i thought i'll need to learn latin :steamhappy:, the fact that you said it's not that importent gave me a relief, i though it was somthing about the natrual philosophy becasue all of the latin. again thank you so much.
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