Watch CBS News

Extricandae Copiae!

EXTRICANDAE COPIAE!....On Sunday I asked for a nice Latin translation of "We must leave Iraq." Something pithy and Cato-like. On Monday, after much discussion of the gerundive passive periphrastic and the first declension feminine nominative plural, Mark Kleiman provides the answer:

Extricandae copiae!
In other words, "Get the troops out." Somebody start making bumper stickers.

View CBS News In
CBS News App Open
Chrome Safari Continue