"Vos mercatorem miserum interficitis."

Translation: You kill the wretched merchant.

[Elin.7-1]

There's an awful lot of killing in this skill on Time...

[Nick_Pr]

There's a time to heal, and a time to kill.

[1e7nx0WG]

Are you suggesting that there should be a separate skill on Killing? Certainly the Romans did a lot of it, so perhaps that could be justified.

[Den_hvalrossen]

It's not a Latin course if they don't teach you fifty synonyms for "kill"

[oruga_fantasma]

Does any of it involve killing time?

[EnliLin1]

Man, I love these sociopathic Latin courses...

[LouiviVeterus]

tempus edax rerum

[SeanMeaneyPL]

"Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer."

[PERCE_NEIGE]

Tacitisque senescimus annis!

[DeadlyRainwing]

Now THIS is the kind of Latin I was hoping they would bring! Because is it truly Latin if you aren't learning a dozen different words for "kill"?

[water_color]

In this skill there is only one verb for "kill" though

[DerAndereLerner]

Let's add 'occido, occidere'. :)

[Den_hvalrossen]

How about "necavere" :)

[DebF26]

I'm still waiting to find out the word for 'assassinate'. And 'Emperor'.
Praetorians forever!!

[RobertEddy]

Worst of all, he sold cheap beer to the parrots so he had to go

[EricWu448438]

Cheap red wine costing 4 coins probably

[Isaac3972]

Actually, in ancient Rome, beer was the preferred beverage of the lower classes, and so probably cheaper than wine. But then again, apparently wine was absolutely disgusting back then, so. . .

[TiagoRodri856988]

From what I heard, beer was a barbarian beverage, almost as much as drinking milk (as opposed to making butter or cheese out of it) or wearing pants. So if by "lower classes" you mean peregrini, then yes. It might not be cheaper than wine at Rome itself, though. Maybe in Egypt or in the edges of the Empire.

[knoedelfri]

Or he threw a fish at them

[Nick_Pr]

Ah, sentences much more like traditional Latin lessons. What course, other than maybe Klingon, would teach the word for "kill" so early?

[cquark]

On the orders of the parrot, or by your own free will?

[CassandraA100557]

the person saying this even sounds like he's reciting a satanic ritual

[jaiirapetjan]

I wish they had a speaker icon on this page so you could hear it. Not all tasks even play the recording.

[bird_king_73]

Maybe the wretched merchant killed the parrots and that's why you kill him.

[oldestguru]

Actually no. The treacherous allies killed the parrots. The wretched merchan was just in the wrong place at the wrong time

[Rheunark]

The plot thickens.

[o-chefe]

All wretched merchants have it coming really. In addition to being merchants, they are also wretched.

[Dim-ond-dysgwr]

Bit of a sociopathic bunch these ancient Romans, eh? So unlike the cool, calm and collected newspaper-reading turtles of Duolingo's Danish lessons, or even the parsnip-obsessed Owen (a bit weird, but harmless really) of the Welsh course.

[AlatheaAnd]

In Norwegian we have a man with a knife standing behind the curtains, but he hasn't yet used it on anyone.

[ShiniShiniGummy]

This lesson got dark real fast

[PERCE_NEIGE]

Interfere is, as first meaning, to destroy, to annihilate totally, or to slaughter.

Occidere is to kill (gave French occire.)

interficere (interfacio) is inter+facio, that's a weird etymology to mean to destroy. Someone knows why?

Inter (between) + facio (I do)?

[Rae.F]

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/interficio#Latin
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/facio#Latin

Literally through-put, or to run someone through with a stabbing weapon like a spear or a sword.

[ksbrandt311]

To do someone in?

[denisdawei]

perhaps it is because when you kill with a sword/spear, you do (facio) stab (trans[fodio]) him, so the sward is between the flesh (inter) , or maybe it means to destroy a city by doing it from the inside from the bellum troianum reference...

[fekundulo]

About the audio, I keep hearing "z" instead of "s" (miZerum). I suppose this should be corrected?

[PierrePoutine]

I was going to ask about that. Does the letter "s" in Latin ever sound like our "z" (as it does in English)?

[Rae.F]

Consonant Pronunciation | latintutorial

[PRS_1206]

S can never sound like s in "those", it will always sound like the s in "silk". ... but this rule only applies to classical Latin, which is what is taught in school, in comparison to the songs you sing in a choir which are from the medieval period and much different in terms of pronunciation.

[Bailey39]

Is the merchant from Venice?

[Hobbit22.9]

Isn't the 'vos' in this a bit redundant? I think we should practice pronouns in sentences where they're necessary, otherwise it gets a bit confusing.

[Rae.F]

Not redundant so much as emphatic, but yes, subject pronouns are generally optional. The only time they might be necessary is in 3rd person. So this is the only way to teach what the pronouns are and how their verbs conjugate.

[PRS_1206]

For selling a deceitful and drunk parrot to you.

[PauloMuffato]

Now I understand why such phrase and many others of this course are in "Time" topic: everyone has its time, time to live and to DIE.

[whukriede]

Noli interficere mercatorem.

[ponoev]

Doesn't miser mean unhappy?

[Rae.F]

According to latindictionary, "miser" can translate as "sad/unhappy/miserable/wretched".
http://latindictionary.wikidot.com/adjective:miser