if in doubt, fuck it
Latin translation: Si dubitum est, abito in malam rem.
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Si dubitum est, abito in malam rem. Explanation: My rendition is literally: "If the thing is doubtful, let it go to hell." Latin didn't commonly use (hetero-)sexual vocabulary abusively. So the basic hostility in your apodosis, being more important than the literal sense, is rendered here by "go to a bad end", the equivalently hostile Latin phrase. Of course, the "bad end" in the world Christianized after classical Latin literature, would be "hell". J. N. Adams, LATIN SEXUAL VOCABULARY |
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