Re: Latin Phrase

From: Prof. A K M Adam (akm.adam@ptsem.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 03 1999 - 07:30:24 EST

Colleagues,

I thought SEMPER PARATUS was the Coast Guard motto; the Boy Scouts' "Be
Prepared" isn't quite the same....

I have a vague recollection from my elementary school days of having to
learn the Coast Guard Hymn:

"Semper Paratus is our cry/Our fame, our glory, too/To fight to win or fight
and die/Aye, Coast Guard, we are for you"

Though I notice that "Air Force" scans as well as "Coast Guard."

A K M Adam 

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>From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu>
>To: Biblical Greek <b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>Cc: Biblical Greek <b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>Subject: Re: Latin Phrase
>Date: Wed, Mar 3, 1999, 7:15 AM
>

> At 9:59 PM -0500 3/2/99, Mary L B Pendergraft wrote:
>>At 08:31 PM 3/2/99 -0500, MR DAGOBERTO   GARCIA wrote:
>>>I know this may be off the topic a little. I more often lurk than
>>>participate.
>>>Does anyone know the latin phrase for "always ready"?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>Dagoberto Garcia
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Semper paratus (masculine) parata (feminine) paratum (neuter).  This leapt
>>to mind because it was the slogan on the automatic teller at my bank years
>>ago--with the feminine, parata, which made me curious.....did it agree with
>>pecunia=money?
>
> That's good: "money always on hand." It should be noted also that SEMPER
> PARATUS has been (and I assume still and always is) the motto of the Boy
> Scouts. There was a celebrated parody of this by Tom Lehrer: "Be
> prepared--that's the Boy Scouts' marching song; be prepared, as through
> life you march along ..." after which point it drops into some less
> commendable applications of the motto.
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics/Washington University
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