Can anyone help me translate these three sentences from English to Latin?

[JustNita]

Can someone help me translate the following phrases from English to Latin:

prays for his liberty

confidence in the court

passion in his heart

[Daily-Editor]

passion in his heart = perturbatio in suus pectus pectoris

[JustNita]

Thank you :)

[Quizmonster]

pro libertate petit
fiducia in foro
fervor in pectore suo

The above are stabs at them in sequence, though it's an awfully long time since I was at school! So, my advice to you - based on past experience of questions involving Latin on AnswerBank - is to check with an 'expert' WHATEVER answer(s) you get here...including MINE! For example, if your local secondary school has a Classics Department or even just a solitary Latin teacher, try to get a response from him/her. An alternative is to approach a local Catholic priest.
If someone suggests an online translation site, I'd treat that with even more care than answers here. They are generally much too vague or even ridiculous, unless you are quite knowledgeable about the language in any case.

[mike11111]

Long time for me too, but I would suggest accusative rather thanan ablative for the second one. Fiducia in curiam?

[nightmare]

Mike,
I was always led to believe that the accusative was used with "in" when motion into was suggested. Just being "in" took the ablative.

[JustNita]

Thank you all.

[MarkRae]

> was always led to believe that the accusative was used with "in" when motion into was suggested. Just being "in" took the ablative.

Correct. The way we learned it was that when 'in' has the sense of 'into', it's accusative, e.g.

Quintus in horto est
Quintus in hortum intrat

[mike11111]

Actually we're both wrong. Just checked in my Smith's, and fiducia takes the objective genitive of the thing in which reliance is placed so fiducia fori or fiducia curiae.

[MarkRae]

Aha - the objective genitive, eh? Fair enough. Now that you mention it, 'fiducia curiae' certainly looks like better Latin than 'fiducia in curiam'...

[mike11111]

Sitting here with a Latin dictionary at 4 in the morning. Quam tristis sum!

[MarkRae]

Ita vero, amice!

[ponjee]

prays for his liberty- precor pro suus licentia
confidence in the court- fiducia in villa
passion in his heart- perturbatio in suus pectus pectoris

[MarkRae]

LOL!

[mike11111]

Vero dicis. Almost as bad as Caesar sic in omnibus.

[MarkRae]

Pompey sic in at.

[mike11111]

It's nearly 50 years since I heard it, but I think the whole rhyme went:

Caesar adsum iam forte,
Pompey aderat.
Caesar sic in omnibus,
Pompey in is at.

Well, as the Roman said, "Sic transit Gloria Swanson".

[MarkRae]

http://www.schoolhous...point/michael-bywater

[mike11111]

Very interesting link, but 'eheu' likely to fall upon deaf ears. I always remember a newly qualified Latin teacher coming to our school who became our form master. He insisted that when he called our names in the register we should put up our hands and reply,"Adsum, magister". If we were absent we had to reply, "Absum, magister". The wit of classicists, they don't make them like that any more!

[MarkRae]

> but 'eheu' likely to fall upon deaf ears

Alas yes, around these parts certainly...

At school, every Latin lesson began "Salvete pueri", to which we'd reply "Salve magister / magistra", depending on who the teacher was...

[mike11111]

What I liked about learning Latin was that when you became more proficient you would study Latin poetry. Quite often the text would be interrupted by a series of asterisks. When asking the reason the reply would invariably be either "a lost fragment" or " possesses no artistic merit". Took me a while to work out that these were the dirty bits.