BPAS Guide to Latin

Here's a few useful Latin words to impress the public and confuse your troops!

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Marching Up and Down

Advance	Signa inferre	Face away (right)	Avertere
Retreat	Receptus	Face back (left)	Reverti
Left	Laevus	About Face	Circumagere
Right	Dex	Shield wedge	Scutum cuneus
Charge	Impetus	Shield wall	Scutum murus
Halt	Insistere	Attack	Incursus

Arching

Nock	Incisura	One	Unus
Draw	Adducere	Two	Duo
Shoot	Iaculari	Three	Tres
Bow	Arcus	Bowmen	Sagittarius
Bowstring	Nervus

Kit and Related Bits

Sword	Gladius	Helm	Galea
Axe	Securis	Gauntlets	Manicae
Halberd	Bipennis	Shield	Scutum

Unrelated Bits

Drink	Potare	Lecherous	Salax
Drinking Bout	Potatio	Ribald	Obscenus
Food	Cibus	Voluptuous	Voluptarius
Vomit	Vomere	Orgy	Commisatio
Bowels	Alvus	Beer	Fermentum
Beware	Cavere	Water Carrier	Aquator

Python Bits

Fish	Piscis	Dead Parrot	Psittacus Mortuus
Run away	Autugere	Shrubbery	Fruticetum

Various Phrases

Python and Other Quotes and sayings

Try some of these on the battlefield to install fear in your enemy !!

Your Mother is a hamster and your farther smells of Elderberries	Tuus matar hamsterius est, et tuus pater buca sabucorum fundor!
I fart in your general direction	Ego alvus vaporos versus tuo expellere
Its only a flesh wound	Id et vulnus caris solus
Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition	Nemo ille Hispanus inquisitio exspectare
There’s trouble at mill	Est tumultus in pistrinum
A nods as good as a wink to a blind bat	An nutus est an nictus ille idem ac ad vespertillio caecus