English phrase "Let it go" into Latin?

Curious Mind

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Jun 15, 2009, 1:38:52 PM6/15/09

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I've been asked to translate the English phrase "Let it go", by someone
under the mistaken impression that because I have a repuation for being
interested in language, I must be able to translate anything.

I've done a tiny bit of online digging into the question, and asked a friend
who asked a friend.

I came up with simply using the imperative form of a verb meaning 'to
release.' Based on the results of this page

http://www.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookdown.pl?release

my guess is that 'mitto' might be the closest to what I'm looking for, but
I'm not sure if I'm right about that. If I am, I don't know how to
conjugate (?) that into the imperative, or even if that's really what I want
to do.

The friend of a friend said that it's a hard idiom to translate directly
(no, really?) and suggested "cease to concern yourself with it" or something
similar, or the vocative tense: "that no longer concerns you".

To me, the first of those two seems closer to what I think is wanted.

Anyway, that's where I am. Would someone be willing to help me out with
this, please?

CuriousMind
BC, Canada

Curious Mind

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Jun 15, 2009, 1:58:08 PM6/15/09

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Curious Mind <cm...@cmindNOSPAM.ca> wrote in
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> I've been asked to translate the English phrase "Let it go"

[snip]

> The friend of a friend said that it's a hard idiom to translate directly
> (no, really?) and suggested "cease to concern yourself with it" or
> something similar, or the vocative tense: "that no longer concerns you".

For what it's worth, he since turned this into:

ut haud diutinus cura

CuriousMind

Ed Cryer

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Jun 15, 2009, 2:09:12 PM6/15/09

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"Curious Mind" <cm...@cmindNOSPAM.ca> wrote in message
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That translation is comically the result of a poor computer program.
Let it go.
Omitte id.

Ed

P.S.
That no longer concerns you = Id tibi non iam est curae.

B. T. Raven

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Jun 15, 2009, 2:19:00 PM6/15/09

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I think that "mitto" gives the right idiom:

Age mitte rem

or

Mittito rem

or

Fac rem mittas

or even

Obliviscendum [Fuh gedda a bowdit, as the Sopranos might say, but 'Let
it go' sounds more like Maryann Faithful]

By the way, announced on Car Talk (Click and Clank on NPR)a Latin
silkscreened teeshirt:

http://www.shamelesscommerce.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=LATINT

Non impediti ratione cogitationis
Conloquium currus

Should say:

Non praegravati processu cogitandi
Rumor de raedis

But not too bad for a couple of mere Harvard alums. Of course my version
isn't very CL either. Anything close to this sentiment in Vergil?

Ed Cryer

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Jun 15, 2009, 2:31:55 PM6/15/09

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"B. T. Raven" <ni...@nihilo.net> wrote in message
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Vergil has a currus that can travel on water;
caeruleo per summa leuis uolat aequora curru;

Ed

Curious Mind

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Jun 15, 2009, 5:24:38 PM6/15/09

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"Ed Cryer" <e...@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote in news:h16446$8r1$1...@aioe.org:

> Let it go.
> Omitte id.

"B. T. Raven" <ni...@nihilo.net> wrote in
news:Qb2dnQ_ULf0JDavX...@sysmatrix.net:

> I think that "mitto" gives the right idiom:
>
> Age mitte rem
> or
> Mittito rem
> or
> Fac rem mittas
> or even
> Obliviscendum

Thanks very much to both of you!

CuriousMind