Aug 25, 2013 19:50
11 yrs ago
English term

Death walks with me

Non-PRO English to Latin Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
This is a phrase I want to get tattooed. All my tattoos are personal to me and have meaning. I want to get the phrase tattooed in Latin because that way hopefully not many people will know what it means and therefore it will have added personal meaning. It will be in script writing on a scroll weaving around a tattoo that I'm still working on.
Proposed translations (Latin)
5 mors mecum ambulat
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PRO (1): BrigitteHilgner

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Proposed translations

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mors mecum ambulat

Since it is a tattoo, which is in a sense an inscription, one would employ capitals, viz., MORS MECVM AMBVLAT or (a little less classical) MORS MECUM AMBULAT.

MORS, subject nominative of a finite verb
MECVM, ablative of accompaniment
AMBVLAT, present indicative (of an ongoing/incomplete action)
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "I think the translation would look good in script as a tattoo. Will remember about that capitals."
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