Luck favours the bold

[Vlacko]

How you say this very old proverb in Latin?

[mind]

Audentes fortuna juvat.
Publius Virgilius Maro, The Aeneid (X, 284 and 458)

[Sido]

fançais: La fortune sourit aux audacieux

[Guest]

Audentes fortuna juvat.
Publius Virgilius Maro, The Aeneid (X, 284 and 458)

and then iuvat instead of juvat

[mind]

Audentes fortuna juvat.
Publius Virgilius Maro, The Aeneid (X, 284 and 458)

and then iuvat instead of juvat

And ivvat instead of iuvat?

[Psi-Lord]

Audentes fortuna juvat.
Publius Virgilius Maro, The Aeneid (X, 284 and 458)

and then iuvat instead of juvat

And ivvat instead of iuvat?

AVDENTES FORTVNA IVVAT

Or should we drop the spaces, too?

[mind]

Audentes fortuna juvat.
Publius Virgilius Maro, The Aeneid (X, 284 and 458)

and then iuvat instead of juvat

And ivvat instead of iuvat?

AVDENTES FORTVNA IVVAT

Or should we drop the spaces, too?

And engrave it on a stone slab.

[rfcompte]

Hello,
I have found another version of it...

Fortuna adiuvat fortes (Vergilius)

R.

[leibnicht]

"Audaces fortuna juvat"
(Audentes are people listening to something)

[leibnicht]

"Audaces fortuna juvat"
(Audentes are people listening to something)

[leibnicht]

"Audaces fortuna juvat"
(Audentes are people listening to something)

[rfcompte]

hello

I think audentes means, the ones who dare, it comes from the verb audere, that means, to dare...
Audire is to hear, and I'm not sure but I think the present participle is audientes...
Anybody wants to confirm this???
Junesun?? Mind??

Rafa

[Ioannes]

"Audaces fortuna juvat"
(Audentes are people listening to something)

No, "audientes" is the present participle (pl.) of "audire". Listener is often translated "auditor", pl. "auditores". Hence rfcompte is correct.

[leibnicht]

Objurgo errorem meum, comes, et ideo de facto me corrigo. Satis est mihi, hodie, ex meo errore demere: "audiens" dictum est de auris coram populo vocatum.
Tum autem "audere" animo forte indefectoque dictum est: hoc parce, amice.
At illa sententia talis tradita: "audaces fortuna juvat".
Et de hoc satis sit.
Vale et vive.

[Ioannes]

Objurgo errorem meum, comes, et ideo de facto me corrigo. Satis est mihi, hodie, ex meo errore demere: "audiens" dictum est de auris coram populo vocatum.
Tum autem "audere" animo forte indefectoque dictum est: hoc parce, amice.
At illa sententia talis tradita: "audaces fortuna juvat".
Et de hoc satis sit.
Vale et vive.

Cui dixisti, amice? Ab imperativo tuo solam vocari videtur.

[rfcompte]

español: "La fortuna ayuda a los audaces"

[MikeL]

For some nice alliteration you could use
fortuna fortibus favet
or FORTVNA FORTIBVS FAVET
if you prefer.

As for juvat/iuvat/iuvat/iuuvat it's a matter of fashion or perhaps academic pretension. Since classical Latin was written only in upper-case letters, and generally no distinction was made between consonant and vowel I and U, it's hard to make a convincing case for or against a particular spelling system when writing Latin today, with both upper and lower cases. Lower-case letters are a mediaeval invention; by this time the pronunciation in both vernacular languages and Latin had changed considerably. The Romans of course were quite aware of the phonetic differences involved in the sounds represented by these two letters, and there were ways in which the consonants could be distinguished if necessary: for example, a consonantal I was sometimes written above the level of the other letters, while a consonantal V was occasionally doubled: e.g. VVIA (whence the modern letter w). But on the whole these expedients were considered unnecessary and did not become common practice.

[Vlacko]

I thought that W is a western versioin of Greek letter Omega?

[Dminor]

Well, you thought wrong. It is however true that in certain modern transscript-systems, w stands for omega.

[Nechayev]

Well, you thought wrong. It is however true that in certain modern transscript-systems, w stands for omega.

Yes, it is used this way in "Greeklish".