gnothi seauton

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Well, it’s been finished for a while now, but I’ve only just got round to putting a picture up. 

A snickers bar goes to the most entertaining suggestion for what it could mean (keep it clean!)… I need something to tell people who ask :)

9 Responses to “gnothi seauton”


  1. 2 David December 1, 2008 at 10:56 am

    Its obviously the “war cry” (paeanes or battle hymn) of that secretive elite ancient greek army division the LVIS

    d.

  2. 3 Rob December 1, 2008 at 1:16 pm

    Gnothi [pron: Gno-THI with a rough g]: the smart (or: we, the smart)
    seauton [pron: se-af-TON]: (who are also) sexy/handsome/bronzed

    As in for example: Gnothi seauton oude ‘en katelaven – We who are smart, and sexy too, can never be defeated (Homer, Iliad), which I assume is the classical quotation you had in mind. Well chosen!

  3. 4 Becky December 6, 2008 at 3:53 pm

    “This side up”? :D

  4. 5 Becky December 6, 2008 at 3:55 pm

    “If found please return to…”

    I’ll stop now…. Just looks like your name in ancient Greek or something…

  5. 6 Shane December 10, 2008 at 4:43 am

    Is that your new sponsor? :-P J/k. Nice tat.

  6. 7 Keith December 15, 2008 at 9:28 am

    “Danger Do Not Touch”

  7. 8 graham March 2, 2009 at 4:08 pm

    I stumbled across this in a wikipedia entry after looking up latin proverbs for something completely unrelated and remembered reading this post. I now know what it means….not the most entertaining answer but definitely the most nerdy and factually correct (assuming wikipedia is right of course!) It is apparently from a carving in the temple of apollo at delphi and means “know thyself”.

    check me out :D

  8. 9 susan August 4, 2009 at 5:43 pm

    know thyself :)


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