Latin Tongue Twisters

If Proculus were far from the bell, Proculos would be far from Proculus.

Wenn Prokulus weit von der Glocke wäre, wäre Prokulus auch weit von Prokulus.

Are we sinking?

Sing, dean, sing! Sing not about/for the dog, white-haired dean; [but] about/for a dean, white-haired dean sing.

Greiser Dechant, singe! Nicht vom Hund (bzw. über einen Hund), greiser Dechant singe; [sondern] einem Dechant (bzw. für einen Dechant), greiser Dechant singe.

I go as I go.

A good name, a good omen (or marriage).

I'll crush you Rome with my bare hands! Hand over your spears and hide!

Dich zerquettsche ich mit bloßer Hand, Rom! Übergebt die Waffen und flieht! (Hannibal)

Paul loves Paula, but Paula loves another (short "a" in alium) / garlic (long "a" in alium).

Although underwater they (the frogs) don't stop cursing.

My mother is a pig." or "Behold, mother, a pig is eating the apples.

Hello, grandfather, do you wish to eat a fowl?

O thou tyrant, Titus Tatius, such great things you brought upon yourself!

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Caesar had some jam for tea, Brutus had a rat. Caesar sick in omnibus, Brutus sick in a hat.

I would rather be in a ship at sea than a naughty boy in an apple tree.

The beautiful woman has beautiful legs.

If you go with Jesuits, you are not going with Jesus.

Always wear underwear.

children are children and children do childish things

Literal Translation: "Arepo the sower holds the wheels at work." The literal translation signifies nothing. This was an acrostic puzzle used by the early church in Rome. At its center is a cross formed by the vertical and horizontal intersection of the word "TENET", which translates into English as belief or ideology. This is the first level of the cryptogram: belief in the cross of Jesus. There is, however, another, deeper, level to the puzzle. The whole thing unwraps into a large single-stranded cross consisting of the word "APATERNOSTERO" in both the vertical and horizontal directions, intersecting in the letter "N". There are no letters left over. The word "PATERNOSTER" (Our Father) was not exclusively Christian, being used by the Romans to refer to their god Jupiter, and sometimes to the Emperor. However, the positioning of the "A" at the front and the "O" at the back, tie it uniquely to Christianity. "A" and the "O" signify the Greek letters Alpha (Α) and Omega (Ω), the beginning and the end, a phrase u

I well remember the dwarf pantomime actor and his lovers' mime.

Love, morals, word, and act prove the friendship.

Tilia (name) under the lime-tree spins thin (subtle) threads.

It pleased the mouse to die in a sea of wonderful wine.

Cellarman/barman, pour me (some wine)!

Where there is love, there is no toil, but if there is toil, the toil is love.

Quand on aime, on n'a pas de mal, et si on a du mal, on aime cet effort.

The very short mimes of the gods of snow do not all that during their lifetime the very great burden of (distributing) the wine of the walls to be lightened.

The inhabitants of Constantinople will be dismayed by numberless troubles.

The love will arrive at you from Rome suddenly with its passions.

By night we go round and we are consumed by fire.

Safeguard your ears

The sun touches your ankles.

Signify yourself! Signify! You are rashly touching and distressing me.

I will be kindly, gently restrain the thirst in my mouth

Persevere through severe things true by themselves.

While I lived, I drunk willingly; drink you who are alive.

My mother eats red apples.

Blessed Spaniards, to whom to live is to drink.

A face, not a face, but a face

A clever jester feigns a horse for himself

Dry with dry eyes, like a pig without juices

Wikipedia is the true life

Some thirsty people drink wet baths

A jester tells the sailors about the shipwrecks of ships to the sailors

The Latin language is wide widely and widely

In its bosom, a pig has sows