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General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters | | English term or phrase: Nothing lasts forever. | | My motto, for a tattoo. |
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| | nihil aeternum est | Explanation:
This is another option, not so literal, but is the idea. I see it was answered in a Latin forum:
Latin - Can someone tell me if this phrase makes sense?6 posts - 2 authors - Last post: 2 May 2006
"Nihil aeternum est." Or you could always go with the tried and true: ... I think I'm leaning towards "Nihil aeternum est". ...
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Without the verb, it is the name of a Music band:
Eterzs bcount eesseM on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s ...The birth of the band dates back to September 2007, as an issue of the choice of Nihil Aeternum (drums) and The Blind (guitars), to find a valid alternative ...
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Nihil Aeternum lyrics - Leo's Lyrics DatabaseLyrics for songs in Nihil Aeternum. ... By Indolentia : Rotten Apple · The Cold Sleep Of Death · Send "Nihil Aeternum" Ringtones to Cell Phone ...
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You could always go for the time-honoured "Sic transit gloria mundi" (thus passes the glory of the world), which conveys the same idea.
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Yes, you could say nihil est aeternum. In Latin it is very common to put the verb at the end, but in this case it can perfectly go in the middle. |
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46 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1 | nothing lasts forever. nihil semper floret
Explanation:
It's a quote from Cicero: floret = blossoms (roughly speaking)
http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/Posts/00002646.h...
Nihil . . . semper floret: aetas succedit aetati.
M. Tullius Cicero, Philippics 11.15.39
(pron = NEE-hill SEHM-per FLOH-ret AI-tahs sook-KAY-det ae-TAH-tee).
Nothing lasts forever: one age succeeds another.
Comment: Cicero makes his observation about big time periods and perhaps larger than life issues. His beloved Roman Republic was about to pass away, and the Roman Empire would, eventually, succeed. The Roman Republic has taken birth at the end of a troubled monarchy, and itself had gone through a number of experimental or evolving stages to reach the form that it had when Cicero defended it.
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1 day12 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 | nothing lasts forever. nihil aeternum est
Explanation:
This is another option, not so literal, but is the idea. I see it was answered in a Latin forum:
Latin - Can someone tell me if this phrase makes sense?6 posts - 2 authors - Last post: 2 May 2006
"Nihil aeternum est." Or you could always go with the tried and true: ... I think I'm leaning towards "Nihil aeternum est". ...
latinforum.org/viewtopic.php?p=2147 - 23k - Cached - Similar pages
Without the verb, it is the name of a Music band:
Eterzs bcount eesseM on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s ...The birth of the band dates back to September 2007, as an issue of the choice of Nihil Aeternum (drums) and The Blind (guitars), to find a valid alternative ...
www.myspace.com/eterzs - 121k - Cached - Similar pages
Nihil Aeternum lyrics - Leo's Lyrics DatabaseLyrics for songs in Nihil Aeternum. ... By Indolentia : Rotten Apple · The Cold Sleep Of Death · Send "Nihil Aeternum" Ringtones to Cell Phone ...
www.leoslyrics.com/albums/25438/;jsessionid=E4327FF833A0FF1... - 56k - Cached - Similar pages
You could always go for the time-honoured "Sic transit gloria mundi" (thus passes the glory of the world), which conveys the same idea.
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Note added at 2 days19 hrs (2009-04-15 17:23:00 GMT) Post-grading
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Yes, you could say nihil est aeternum. In Latin it is very common to put the verb at the end, but in this case it can perfectly go in the middle.
Reference: http://latinforum.org/viewtopic.php?p=2147
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Asker: Can I change the last 2 words in "est aeternum"? Or is that a problem?
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