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Nancy Drew 11: Curse of Blackmoor Manor Hints

What does all the Latin on the coats of arms mean?

  • Loulou will translate for you, but she'll only do this once. If you want to know them all, you need to restore a saved game and ask her another. But you don't have to, because I did it for you. Here are the translations:

    In hoc signo -- In this sign (you will conquer)
    Prosperitas -- Success
    Victum invideo silenti -- The conquered shall envy the dead
    Cito fit quod dei volunt -- What the gods want happens soon
    Ut sementuem feceris ita metes -- As you sow, so shall you reap
    Minima maxima sunt -- The smallest things are the most important
    Age pro viribus -- In all that you do, do your best
    Ars longa -- Art lives long (from the phrase "Ars longa vita brevis" -- art is long, life is short)
    Audaces fortuna invat -- Fortune favors the bold
    Novus mundus -- A new world
    Pulchritudo in omnia -- There is beauty in all things
    Sine scientia ars nihil est -- Without understanding, art is nothing
    Ludi sine gaudio ludi non sunt -- Sport without fun is not sport
    Si sic omnes -- If only this could last forever
    Bis vivat qui bene vivat -- Whoever lives well lives twice
    Diem perdidi -- Another day wasted
    Per aures ad animum -- Through the ears to the spirit
    Numen lumen -- Divine light is my guide
    Purgamentum exit - Garbage out (perhaps a reference to the programmers' saying, "Garbage in, garbage out")
    Nunquam dediscebo -- Never forget
    Amicus et magister -- Friend and master (or teacher)
    Tempus fugit --Time flies
    Omnia vincit amor -- Love conquers all
    Ludes ergo es -- You play, therefore you are (a take-off of "Cogito ergo sum" -- I think, therefore I am)