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Anybody Know Latin ?

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  • 19-07-2007 3:54pm
    #1
    hi-fi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭


    This is our family moto, please can anyone translate it. The nearest I've been able to get reads something like Orvil's song "I wish I could fly, way up to the sky, but I can't" !!!!!
    Anyway here it is:
    Quae sursum volo videre
    :confused:


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    Pythia
    Registered Users Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭Pythia


    A quick googling gives the answer
    I wish to see what is beyond

    Quinn family?


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    Lucas10101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 630 ✭✭✭Lucas10101


    Actually, It can also be read as:

    I'm wishing to see what's beyond.


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    Blush_01
    Registered Users Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    ... which is effectively the exact same thing.


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    hi-fi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭hi-fi


    Pythia wrote:
    A quick googling gives the answer



    Quinn family?

    Yea-I tried google but couldn't get it. Ta v much


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    #6
    hi-fi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭hi-fi


    hi-fi wrote:
    This is our family moto, please can anyone translate it. The nearest I've been able to get reads something like Orvil's song [COLOR="Plum[COLOR="Magenta"]"]"I wish I could fly, way up to the sky, but I can't" !!!![/COLOR]![/COLOR]Anyway here it is:
    Quae sursum volo videre
    :confused:


    I wasn't that far out !


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