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“Atsra” isn’t a typo for “Astra”, is it, by any chance?

“Id est Latinum, sic ei credo!”… Hmm! Miror qua lingua veteres Romani homines stulto usi sunt?”-a phrase, in Latin, from Walt Kelly.

(Walt Kelly wrote + created, Pogo. Pogo was a comic strip from the 20th Century.)

The last one is basically “Tell that to someone else.” (Directly it’s “Apella the Jew believes, not I” or something close to it.)
I’ve obsessed over the Latin duel between Johnny Ringo and Doc Holliday since Tombstone first came out.

‘Ad Astra Per Aspera’ is something like “To the stars, through hardship”. I also watch Star Trek.

@TRA, according to my teachers: Greek. Supposedly Caesar’s “Alea iacta est” should’ve been “????????? ?????”…

Just to add on to that idea:
that’s good to know! Thanks. :D
I never knew that the Romans would use Greek. :)

Romans had a real fetish about Greek (not just the language, but Greek culture in general). That’s why the eastern half of the Roman Empire was allowed to keep using Greek as the official language (which it had been doing even outside of actual Greece since Alexander the Great about four centuries before Caesar). This kinda bit them in the ass a few centuries later, when the Greek-speaking eastern part of the Empire decided it didn’t really need the Latin-speaking western part for anything anymore.

That was probably less related to the language and more to the moving of the capital and constant invasions of Rome.

Plus the eastern empire controlled most of the richest assets. The western empire’s territories were far less productive and were often restive, in addition to coming under frequent outside attack. Basically the west was just more trouble than it was worth.

Hmmmmmmm…Borgor King.

Why go to Borgor King when you can go to Borgor Kong?

…I honestly don’t go to either, though, that brand doesn’t have that name here. I have to go to Hungry Jacks. Though how six pronged 3D metal objects or an object used to slightly lift a car to allow you to change the tyre goes hungry, I don’t know.

What? The “Jack” in “Hungry Jacks” is supposed to reference the same “Jack” as a “Jack” in a deck of cards? Well, cards can’t eat either, so my point still stands! Now stop talking about knaves, serving royalty and other things irrelevant to the original joke!

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