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When A Roman Sneezes?

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David Amicus

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Aug 21, 2014, 3:46:16 PM8/21/14
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I read a story about a schoolgirl who was expelled when she said "God bless you" when a schoolmate sneezed.

Germans say "Gesundheit" and Spanish speaking people say "Salud".


I was wondering what an ancient Roman would have said in Latin when someone sneezed?

Johannes Patruus

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Aug 21, 2014, 4:18:05 PM8/21/14
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Jove only knows, but Wikipedia doesn't -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responses_to_sneezing

Traupman suggests "Salve!" or "Salutem!".

Patruus

Ed Cryer

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Aug 21, 2014, 5:24:15 PM8/21/14
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The Swedes and Ladinos use Latin; the former say "prosit", while the
latter display characteristic idiosyncrasy by saying "vivas" for the
first sneeze followed by "crescas" for the second; the protocol for a
third not being known.

Ed

David Amicus

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Aug 21, 2014, 7:03:24 PM8/21/14
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Thanks all!

Will Sharp

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Mar 10, 2015, 4:11:18 PM3/10/15
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Erasmus scribit "faustus sit tibi."

Will Sharp

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Mar 10, 2015, 4:23:25 PM3/10/15
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> Erasmus scribit "faustum sit tibi."

Volui dicere "faustum sit tibi."

Paulus

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Mar 23, 2015, 1:53:22 PM3/23/15
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Will Sharp wrote:

> On Thursday, August 21, 2014 at 2:46:16 PM UTC-5, David Amicus wrote:
>> I read a story about a schoolgirl who was expelled when she said "God
>> bless you" when a schoolmate sneezed.
>>
>> Germans say "Gesundheit" and Spanish speaking people say "Salud".

The Dagoes say "Jesús".

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Paulus
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Dec 11, 2019, 10:50:46 AM12/11/19
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I think this response is only frustrating, but I happened across this from Apuleius, Metamorphosis 9.25:

solito sermone salutem ei fuerat imprecatus

Of course that doesn't necessarily mean that "salutem" was that "solitus sermo." It's also somewhat complicated since he's writing about Greeks.
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