I remember the Daily Kos used to be a hotbed for Latin language experts, but that was years ago. I hope you all are still around, because I could sure use your help.
I have a friend who will be graduating from college very soon, and I am planning to give her an inscribed Rudis--the wooden sword given to gladiators who earned their freedom. I took Latin in high school, but it has been a very, very long time and to say I am rusty is an understatement. I tried to piece together some phrasing for the inscription from Latin diploma texts that I found online:
Omnibus has litteras lecturis aslutem dicit. Hiscre litteris nos ad id muris summa Reipublicae auctoritate delegati testmur delectam nobis [NAME] rite probatam ad Scientiarum Baccalaureatum fuisse provectam et omnibus et singulis juribus et privilegiis ad istum gradum pertinentibus eam a nobis fuisse donatam. Hic gradus conlatus est cum laude anno alutis MMXVI
It is supposed to say:
Greetings to all who may read these letters. With these letters we who have been assigned to this task by the highest authority of the republic testify that the chosen and to us agreeable [NAME] was promoted to the Baccalaureate of Sciences and that she was endowed by us with all and every single right and privilege which pertains to that grade. This degree is conferred with distinction in the year of grace 2016
I hope I got it right! :-O I would like to change the text from being first person (instead of "we who have been assigned") to 3rd person ("they who have been assigned"). I made some changes myself (yikes!) and I hope they work. Here it my draft:
Omnibus has litteras lecturis aslutem dicit. Hiscre litteris ea ad id muris summa Reipublicae auctoritate delegati testantur delectam [NAME] rite probatam ad Scientiarum Baccalaureatum fuisse provectam et omnibus et singulis juribus et
privilegiis ad istum gradum pertinentibus eam a fuisse donatam. Hic gradus conlatus est cum laude anno alutis MMXVI
I was trying to get it to say:
Greetings to all who may read these letters. With these letters those who have been assigned to this task by the highest authority of the republic testify that the chosen and agreeable [NAME] was promoted to the Baccalaureate of Sciences and that she was endowed with all and every single right and privilege which pertains to that grade This degree is conferred with distinction in the year of grace 2016
Did I manage to get it right? If not, where did I go wrong and how do I correct it? I used the neuter gender for "they" and I wasn't sure about the "a fuisse" (I thought the "a" could be eliminated). Thank you so much in advance!!! Your help is greatly appreciated!! Of course, when I get it engraved, everything will be in all caps and the letter U converted to V and J to I just like the old days.
Thank you very much for any help you may be able to provide!!
P.S. Hmm… looking at the text, I probably should have the last line match tense with the rest of the text. Would Imperfect tense be good enough?