Help me translate this phrase to latin:

[Aperipan]

" Young men, observe the time and fly away from evil."

I'm writing a poem for class and would like to have this phrase in latin at the start of my poem, kind of like T.S. Eliot's Prufrock. Thanks.

 

[ysc]

Usually if you are going to do something like this you use a genuine Latin tag/quote rather than just translating something that you like.

 

[JLibourel]

Without having a Latin Dictionary handy:

"Juvenes, tempus spectate, malum fugate."

 

[Connemara]

Originally Posted by youngscientist

Usually if you are going to do something like this you use a genuine Latin tag/quote rather than just translating something that you like.
+1.

 

[itsstillmatt]

Quella boquina mama te. I am sure this is correct, though perhaps not the spelling.

 

[T4phage]

Originally Posted by iammatt

Quella boquina mama te. I am sure this is correct, though perhaps not the spelling.

mmmmm...
delishush tears to be coming my way Aperipan?

 

[dkzzzz]

Originally Posted by Aperipan

" Young men, observe the time and fly away from evil."

I'm writing a poem for class and would like to have this phrase in latin at the start of my poem, kind of like T.S. Eliot's Prufrock. Thanks.

That phrase makes no sense in English what would Latin do?

 

[Aperipan]

Originally Posted by JLibourel

Without having a Latin Dictionary handy:

"Juvenes, tempus spectate, malum fugate."

Thanks, this sounds about right.

 

[Prexaspes]

No offence to Jlibourel, but there is an error in this. Perhaps more correctly:

Iuvenes, tempus servate et malum fugite (not fugate, which means something different).

 

[ysc]

Seriously if you want to start a poem with a quote it has to be a real one, not one you have just made up.
Also your quote does not properly make sense in english, usually when a translated quote does not make perfect sense it is due to problems translating from one language to another, not because it was written in a weird way, if whoever is marking this is switched on you will get penalised for it.
If you really want to start of with a quote and you don't have one to hand look around on the internet.

Also the quote at the beginning of Prufrock is from dante, so not in latin but tuscan, which is neither here nor there I suppose.

 

[Star]

All due respect to the OP and his question however since we are on this topic what would be the equivalent in Latin (and not literal translation) of something like ' Go and F..k Yourself' and/or 'I will smite thee'.

 

[Etienne]

Originally Posted by dkzzzz

That phrase makes no sense in English what would Latin do?
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

 

[Aperipan]

Originally Posted by Étienne

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

???

 

[JLibourel]

Originally Posted by Prexaspes

No offence to Jlibourel, but there is an error in this. Perhaps more correctly:

Iuvenes, tempus servate et malum fugite (not fugate, which means something different).

You got me there! I confused "fugo/fugare" (rout, put to flight) with "fugio, fugere" (flee).

 

[Prexaspes]

Originally Posted by JLibourel

You got me there! I confused "fugo/fugare" (rout, put to flight) with "fugio, fugere" (flee).

Well, I am a classical scholar by profession, so allegedly at least I know about this sort of thing. Yes, fugio=I flee, fugo=I put to flight...