he does not suffer fools gladly

Latin translation: Invite stultos videt (fert) // stultos fastidit

05:31 Dec 4, 2006

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Medical - Medical (general) / Organized medicine

English term or phrase: he does not suffer fools gladly

Common description of impatient friends.

Peter M. Pollock

Latin translation:Invite stultos videt (fert) // stultos fastidit

Explanation:
If you mean that your friends has to put up with fools, even though he would rather kick them in their backs, then the first option is what you might need. You have to choose either "videt" or "fert": I prefer "videt" for the alitteration "ìnvite/videt", with stress falling on first i's.
If you mean that your friend cannot stand fools, not even trying to cope with them, the shorter "stultos fastidit" is perfect (again the stress falls on the first vowel of each word).
Just a question: why medicine?
:-)

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Leonardo Marcello Pignataro (X)
Local time: 15:30

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Invite stultos videt (fert) // stultos fastidit

Leonardo Marcello Pignataro (X)

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non laete stultos patitur

Joseph Brazauskas

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Invite stultos videt (fert) // stultos fastidit

Leonardo Marcello Pignataro (X)
Local time: 15:30
Native speaker of:

Italian
PRO pts in category: 4

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Asker: Many thanks! Why medicine? Around a third of the immense US medical bill goes -not to patient care- but to prosperous middlemen, private and governmental, many of whom are "Administrative Physicians", i.e. with an MD after the name but no taste for laying hands on patients, skilled in shearing their colleagues (and colleagues' patients). Far too few true physicians fight them, most of the rest being either cowards or stultos. "Stultos fastidit" for one of the few.

5 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

non laete stultos patitur

Explanation:
An alternative rendering.

Joseph Brazauskas
United States
Local time: 09:30
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 8

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